Mahwani Thousand 2019 Hand-woven archival ink-jet prints 85 x 172 cm
Maone or mahwani (like the English word ‘one’) is Shona slang for ‘things are bad’ or ‘its difficult.’ When things got really bad in Zimbabwe, mahwani thousand emerged, mocking the run away inflation and perhaps the feeling mawhani would not adequately capture how difficult things were in the country.
