Helen Teede: Uprooting

A question of identity that never arises until it is called into question is that of the home. Helen Teede’s paintings evoke a process of disentanglement from the place in which she grew up, the place that formed the beginnings of the structure of her soul. This body of work is deeply personal, but also speaks to a wider discourse of loss, dislocation and racial identity both in Zimbabwe and in the world today.