Option Dzikamai Nyahunzvi (b. 1992, Zimbabwe) is a Zimbabwean contemporary artist whose practice centers on painting and mixed media. His work explores identity, spirituality, memory, family, and the relationship between individuals and their cultural environment. Characterized by richly textured surfaces, symbolic imagery, and layered compositions, Nyahunzvi’s paintings often draw on personal experience and Shona cultural references to reflect on belonging, ancestry, and contemporary African life.

With the impact of COVID 19, a false identity image has been created amongst humanities. Everyone in the world it’s mandatory to wear protective clothes, masks, sanitizing your hands regularly, and practice of social distance. False identity image is easily being created when a man covers the face with a mask, automatically the expression around the face some part of it is hidden, you can’t see the smile, and you can’t read the lips you can’t breathe properly, what you only have access to is the eyes that a filled with fear of having a chance to contaminate the virus at any time.

This has been pushing people to not be really themselves in their everyday life, confusion within the heart of every mankind, to someone that you know, without looking properly you can pass through one another simply because the true identity is hidden under a mask.