Victoria Miro is delighted to present When You Need Letters for Your Skin, the gallery’s first solo exhibition of new paintings by Kudzanai-Violet Hwami.

Based in the UK, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami was born in Gutu, Zimbabwe and lived in South Africa from the ages of nine to seventeen. Her paintings combine visual fragments from a myriad of sources, such as online and archival images, and personal photographs, which collapse past and present.

Powerful nudes are a point of departure and in this exhibition of new works, Hwami’s first with the gallery, the artist considers existence in a time and space — as much digital as physical — where people are investigating their sexual, spiritual and political identity.