FAACCE Curated
"Painted across the long rains of 2024, Songs of the Iroko begins with the artist's grandmother — a woman who spoke to trees the way others speak to elders."
Nigeria · Fine Art
Songs of the Iroko
Adaeze Okafor
FAACCE Verified
Stone of the Shona
Harare, Zimbabwe·Fine Art
- Medium
- Hand-carved serpentine
- Dimensions
- 140 × 55 × 40 cm
- Year
- 2024
- Certificate
- FA-2024-0201 →
$ 11,200
Indicative — acquisition is dialogue, not checkout.
Authenticated by the FAACCE Curatorial Council. View certificate.
Story behind the work
Mupfumira carves from a single block of Zimbabwean springstone, in the direct lineage of the Tengenenge masters — a monumental figure that reads as ancestor before it reads as sculpture.
A single-stone sculpture in serpentine, hand-polished over six months, mounted on a black granite plinth.
Curatorial note
FAACCE Curatorial Council
"Provenance traced to the Tengenenge community; lineage verified by the FAACCE Sculpture Panel."
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