These monuments are fragments of dreams of home, 2026
Nine colour woodcut
290 gsm 100% cotton rag
290 gsm 100% cotton rag
76 x 64 cm
Edition of 14
R14,500.00 (Unframed)
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Micha Serraf’s tapestries emerge from his sculptural and drawing practices. His clay sculptures are created in complete darkness, using blackout curtains to eliminate light. Guided by intention and a sense of ancestral or spiritual form, darkness becomes a critical element in his process—rooted in his experiences growing up in Zimbabwe and later moving to South Africa, both countries shaped by persistent power supply challenges. For Serraf, working in the dark symbolises resilience and adaptation in the face of difficult circumstances.
He builds his figurative sculptures from the base upwards, allowing his eyes to slowly adjust to the limited light. This process results in bases that are rough and indistinct, gradually transitioning into more refined, recognisable forms toward the shoulders and head. The sketches of these sculptures are then incorporated into tapestry works, placed within landscapes drawn from memory, nostalgia, and imagination—depicting figures navigating or contemplating their surroundings.
Serraf says, “The figures and forms in my work shift between worlds, their presence neither fixed nor fleeting but in constant negotiation with time. Through the lens of my own odyssey as a young boy, familial tales become maps that guide me through histories I have never lived but somehow remember. In recontextualising displacement, I reconstruct a world where the unfamiliar becomes a place of return. My work is an assertion of joy, abundance, and belonging—each tapestry a conversation between past and present, between what is remembered and what is waiting to be recalled.”
Biography
Micha Serraf at Loft Editions.
Micha Serraf’s (b. 1994, Zimbabwe) practice is centred around rewriting the trauma of displacement with the imagined memory of celebration, homage and childlike wonder. In pursuit of memory, identity and a place to call home, his work is grounded in a nostalgia of personal and ancestral experience, caught in an entanglement between ancestral history and utopic optimism.
Serraf will have a solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in September 2026. Other notable career moments include his inclusion in the group exhibition “Marvellous Realism” at Fotografiska Shanghai in 2024; his Gasworks Artist Residency in 2023; selection as a Norval Sovereign African Art Prize finalist in 2023; Winner of the Ritzau Art Prize 2021; his ISCP New York Artist Residency in 2021; and his inclusion in the group exhibition “Foam Talent 2020” with works from a new generation of visual artists at the FOAM Museum in Amsterdam.
Serraf will have a solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in September 2026. Other notable career moments include his inclusion in the group exhibition “Marvellous Realism” at Fotografiska Shanghai in 2024; his Gasworks Artist Residency in 2023; selection as a Norval Sovereign African Art Prize finalist in 2023; Winner of the Ritzau Art Prize 2021; his ISCP New York Artist Residency in 2021; and his inclusion in the group exhibition “Foam Talent 2020” with works from a new generation of visual artists at the FOAM Museum in Amsterdam.