Georgina Maxim

20 September 2022

Georgina Maxim (1980, Harare) is a textile artist who divides her work between visual art and curatorial practice. For her artistic work, Georgina Maxim turns to textiles and uses the techniques of embroidery, sewing and weaving to deconstruct, cut and recompose second-hand clothing. By doing so, she creates singular works that escape any definition: the artist herself describes her work as an act of memory, a transcription of the present, of those moments lived and of those stories evoked by these used textiles. After being nominated for the Henrike Grohs Award (Goethe Institute, Abidjan), in 2019 Georgina Maxim presents an installation for the Zimbabwean Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. In 2020 she exhibited at the Musée Bargoin (Clermont-Ferrand) and presented her work at the FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine in 2021. In 2022, Georgina Maxim exhibits at MuCAT in Abidjan and at Somerset House in London.