©2025 Paul Takunda Chiwona



  1. logbook of a digital conquest
  2. eiada#001
  3. emoji chessboard
  4. pepe sculpture
  5. algospeak performance
  6. narratives of water


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logbook of a digital conquest



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logbook of a digital conquest
2025
296x220cm
thermal transfer print on paper strips, assembled wall installation

This work confronts a personal online archive devoted to Rhodesia, the former British colony that is now Zimbabwe. The archive circulates nostalgic texts, racist narratives, and images that romanticize and normalize a lost colonial order. 159 unique images have been forcibly extracted from the site, organized on thermal paper, and partially burned. Recorded on this autodestructive canvas, the archive’s visual logics and the worldview it tries to preserve are exposed to material decay. What memories can we not afford to burn? What must be destroyed?