He picks a wide range of garbage that includes electronic gadgets, plastic bottles, paper and metal to create sculptures whose subjects range from animals to abstract forms.
His work also known as ‘found objects sculpturing’ is on display following the recent opening of his "Animal Kingdom Exhibition" at Gallery Delta with support from the Embassy of Switzerland.
“I am a found objects visual artist and I work with garbage material that I collect from a dumpsite in Chitungwiza and turn it into different pieces of art that you are seeing today. The primary objective of my art is to show different social messages using waste material that has become a nuisance in my community as it is not being regularly collected,” Zuze said.
“The idea,” he explains, “is to give new existence to daily objects, providing them with a lively unexpected presence beyond their primary use and into a poetic dimension.”
During the opening of the exhibition Helen Lieros, a co-founder of Gallery Delta, said Zuze’s "Animal Kingdom" originates from the Chitungwiza dumpsite where Zuze collects urban junk which, under his hands, is transformed into artistic and creative sculptures of birds and animals.
Mrs. Juliane Ineichen, the Chargée d’affaires a.i, at the Embassy of Switzerland, who was the guest of honour at the official opening of the exhibition, said waste has become a central metaphor of contemporary society.
“It speaks to the consequences of consumerism in our everyday life, while pointing to the inequalities across city spaces, by revealing how waste or trash in one context is a treasure, while in another is a commodity,” said Mrs. Ineichen.
In Southern Africa, Switzerland, through the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), is working with the University of Pretoria and other regional partners – including those in Zimbabwe – to show how artists working with or transforming waste objects into art objects find a way to sustain themselves outside of wage-labour relationships.
The exhibition will open until 30 April 2018.
