Artist
Pardon Mapondera
Textile / Recycled Materials born (1992). Lives and works in Cape town, South Africa.
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.
Exhibitions at the National Gallery
- Second Nature | Manyonga · 2026