Simon Back
Adam 2.0
First Floor Gallery Harare
Adam 2.0
First Floor Gallery Harare
Where does art come from? There is no visible evolutionary need for it. Art has not provided shelter or nourishment or even companionship in and of itself. And yet. There is a yearning. Ineffable and inevitable which calls to those whose souls are shaped to resonate with its vibration and make it visible. This is the poetic truth. The quotidian reality however, for every painter is the excruciating quest to shape the palpable into the tangible while facing the chasm of the empty canvas.
In Adam 2.0, Simon Back returns to the theme of wrestling with the process of creation he first began with Adam his first exhibition at Gallery Delta of Zimbabwe 1989. Thirty-six years later following more than two decades of living in Mauritius, Back returns both to Harare and the concept of shaping his own practice and himself in the process in Adam 2.0.
The manual labour of extracting the person from the quagmire of life is eminently, in a way that is both exploratory and muscular. As much as his canvases are about the person they are equally about the work and more appositely the work as process. They are only definite about being where they are, the space that has been arrived at, at the moment but not suggesting it as a destination. This is unapologetic honesty of an artist about being an artist is equally analogous to all of us finding our way and taking charge and responsibility for who we are an we are at, which is perhaps the most empowering thing that art can share with each one of us.
Valerie Kabov
Curator
©2025
In Adam 2.0, Simon Back returns to the theme of wrestling with the process of creation he first began with Adam his first exhibition at Gallery Delta of Zimbabwe 1989. Thirty-six years later following more than two decades of living in Mauritius, Back returns both to Harare and the concept of shaping his own practice and himself in the process in Adam 2.0.
The manual labour of extracting the person from the quagmire of life is eminently, in a way that is both exploratory and muscular. As much as his canvases are about the person they are equally about the work and more appositely the work as process. They are only definite about being where they are, the space that has been arrived at, at the moment but not suggesting it as a destination. This is unapologetic honesty of an artist about being an artist is equally analogous to all of us finding our way and taking charge and responsibility for who we are an we are at, which is perhaps the most empowering thing that art can share with each one of us.
Valerie Kabov
Curator
©2025
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