Travesía Cuatro is delighted to announce the opening of Kuenda Mberi "Moving On", a solo show by Virginia Chihota.

Intuition, that inner voice capable of perceiving the world unconsciously through the accumulation of knowledge and experience, runs through the work of Virginia Chihota (Zimbabwe, 1983). In her work, an overwhelming force comes into tension with the need to find refuge. A safe space for art, protected as if it was inside a womb —an organ that tends to be associated with fertility in African art and that Virginia Chihota often draws— where the artist voluntarily isolates herself in order to name the unnamable, question the material conditions necessary for artistic production, explore her spirituality and search for her identity, as an African woman and a woman artist. Her work, deeply introspective, connects with her personal, collective and ancestral memory, where the body —always in transformation— occupies a central place. In this continuous dialogue with herself, the artist uses silkscreen printing, drawing and painting in a game of textures and different layers with which she superimposes past, present and future. A multidimensional tale in which life and death intertwine in the face of a repetition of abstract gestures and ghostly presences that aspire to reveal the hidden and recall the indelible. Kuenda Mberi. Moving On is a catharsis following the different migratory experiences that over the last decade have led the artist to reside in different countries such as Libya, Tunisia, Austria, Ethiopia and the USA; an expression of her experiences linked to displacement, isolation and the permanent need for reconstruction in the face of new realities and contexts, which is both a daily struggle and the possibility of a continuous rebirth as a woman and an artist.