The main source of inspiration for Gareth Nyandoro’s (born in 1982 in Zimbabwe, lives in Harare) work is the local markets of Harare, with their buzzing stalls, loud hawkers, frenzied buyers and enticing displays of goods. His interest in objects and commerce translates into the manifest materiality of his work, as well as into its iconography, as he focuses in on details from the marketplace: a single shoe, a hanging shirt, a batch of designer sunglasses, a lollipop.

Gareth Nyandorois the 2017 SAM Art Projects Resident