Budding visual artiste, Neville Starling is set to officially open his solo exhibition dubbed Rest Until at the Corridor Gallery today in the capital.
BY LORRAINE MUROMO
Neville, who officially jumpstarted his career recently despite having been active since 2011 told NewsDay that this was a great opportunity for him to advance his ideas.
“In Rest Until, I explore the land, the unborn personal loss, memory, the spirit and the journey to renewal within the turbulent past and seemingly tumultuous future of Zimbabwe,” Starling said.
“This exhibition revolves around memory in the land, morality and how beautiful things still grow on the land where so many people have died.
“With respect to intelligence, the past and future, thoughtful emotion and above all, with the curiosity that love brings to these subjects and thoughts I humbly invite you, on the day after winter solstice when the light lingers a little longer each day, to explore a place where time is patient and location is calm, a place where forever is circular.”
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The exhibition is also set to explore themes which resonate with past mistakes, past wisdoms as well as discoveries and Starling explores these themes with photographic medium that is laced with traditional film and light sensitive materials.
Starling was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, where he maintains his full time darkroom and studio. He works predominantly with traditional black and white photographic techniques and tools. His work is highly conceptual, personal and fuelled by curiosity.
Both mysterious and romantic, his work explores themes of mortality and rebirth, memory along with its connection to photography, the history of place and identity within postcolonial society. Starling’s work is held in many private collections around the world and he has exhibited in various group shows in Zimbabwe. This is his first solo exhibition.
Given the physical connection he has with his works, Starling is able to relieve the reality of strongly Zimbabwean and African subject matter, legends, unseeables and histories, some are Africa’s new and ancient readymades in a way.