The Colour 'Gentle' | Tatenda Chidora

02.10 - 05.11. 2025

artHARARE presents award-winning Zimbabwean visual artist Tatenda Chidora first solo presentation in Cape Town South Africa. Known for both commercial and fine art photography, his work investigates and celebrates the multifaceted expressions of Blackness while using elements of performance and play to explore themes of place, identity, and manhood. Through his portraiture, Chidora questions traditional notions of masculinity and its potential “to be soft,” drawing from fashion, history, and cultural aesthetics to create compositions that reimagine the Black male figure with tenderness and strength.

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This exhibition, titled The Colour Gentle, extends this inquiry by celebrating the beauty of Black skin and offering a meditation on intimacy, belonging, and vulnerability. Chidora’s work has been recognised internationally: in 2023 he won the British Journal of Photography’s Portrait of Humanity Vol. 5 Series Award, and in 2022 he was shortlisted for the Contemporary African Photography Prize. He has exhibited widely, including at 1-54 London and other global platforms.

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