Meet Moffat Takadiwa: The Zimbabwe artist turning Harare’s plastic waste into haunting records of colonial history

In Harare's Mbare district, one of Zimbabwe's major recycling hubs and a dense node of the city's informal economy, artist Moffat Takadiwa sorts through the hard residue of global consumption and builds it into something that stops people in their tracks. Computer keyboard keys, toothbrush heads, bottle caps, nail polish parts, buttons, and combs are gathered from dumping sites around the capital and from a nearby clothing factory, then sorted, drilled, threaded, and assembled into large wall works that hover somewhere between textile, sculpture, and historical record.

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