Manzi’s paintings evoke the grace, beauty and authenticity of Black women in a pictorial style that’s strikingly uncommon. Intimacy is a vital quality of paintings by Manzi, one of the truly bright talents at work in Rwanda today. Many of the women Manzi paints are known to him and some are his friends, allowing him the freedom to experiment with ideas affirming those qualities in Black womenfolk that he holds to be true: grace, beauty, fortitude, strength.
