Lawrence Chikwa draws portraits with crayon of the studio portraits taken by Alick Phiri to decipher how the human face can be double faceted.  Two of Zambia's most interesting veterans in painting and photography enter into a conceptual dialogue where critique holds a mirror to the conscience of society.  Curated by Sana Ginwalla, the exhibition is in collaboration with the Everyday Lusaka Gallery,  Zambia.    

The works have two faces, which is not decided. Some of the works are mask-like. The mask in Africa is a defying standard which in our history has been used to discuss our problems. This is not in the West’s culture.

There is a time when you are child, you are left behind and then you become an adult, and you have a mask. You are removed from childhood. But the way of things in Africa is that those masks are not myths, they masks are modes through which generations can speak to one another.

The legacy here is of older people who never left, and did not leave space for the younger people. Younger people choose to go into entrepreneurship, there is no space. That voice will always remain. There is only one voice in the artwork.

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