Georgina Maxim (born 1980) is a Zimbabwean artist and curator who lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe and studied at University of Bayreuth, Germany and Chinhoyi University in Zimbabwe. She develops her artistic practice around textiles, using techniques as varied as sewing, weaving, embroidery and crochet to (re)bring used clothes to life. Maxim is also the co-founder and co-director of Village Unhu in Milton Park, Harare, a collective arts space offering residency programs, exhibitions and studio spaces. Her recent exhibitions include: group exhibitions in Paris (31 Project) 2024, Memoria: récits d’une autre histoire, National Museum of Yaoundé, Yaounde, 2023, O Quilombismo, O Quilombismo: Of Resisting and Insisting. Of Flight as Fight. Of Other Democratic Egalitarian Political Philosophies, Quilombism, 2023; A Different Now is Close Enough to Inhale on you, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town and Johannesburg, 2022; Eternally Yours, Somerset House, London, 2022; 58th Venice Biennale, Zimbabwe Pavillion, Venice, 2019.
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