Pardon Mapondera

Pardon Mapondera is the youngest of the five artists in the Pavilion of Zimbabwe, and in many respects the most formally unexpected. He builds a practice out of what consumer society discards: plastic bottles, straws, thread and other recycled detritus, transformed with extraordinary patience into complex textile compositions.

His practice is, at one level, an act of ecological witness, a refusal to let us look away from the consequences of consumption.