Sculptor
Chido Johnson confronts issues of what he calls
“his own state of cultural negotiations”
to construct a “newly defined space and sense
of identity.” Born in 1969, in Nyadiri, in what
was then Rhodesia, he lived in Africa until the mid
eighties when he relocated to America. As a child,
before he learned to speak English he was fluent in
Shona, Tonga, Nyanja and Bemba. Issues of identity
and flux are central to his sculpture. “This
feeling of emptiness and longing for authenticity
emerges and leads to a state of being rooted away
from a sense of belonging.” - Chido Johnson In
his work he constructs ideological, often elliptical
(cryptic) constructions, which explore the state of
being (identity) and its accompanying sense of authenticity
(uniqueness).
