“Arte Assinada no Feminino” at MUSART
Superheroes- African comics and video games
8:35 CAT | 17 October 2019
Superheroes- African comics and video games
Date and Time: Tuesday, October 22 2019 at 18h00 (inauguration). The exhibition will be available until Friday, November 29 2019
Entrance: Free
Address: Camões - Centro Cultural Português em Maputo, Av. Julius Nyerere no. 720, Maputo
About the exhibition
In recent years, we have seen in comics and videogames produced on the African continent the appearance of a set of works whose central protagonists are “superheroes”. This trend has been referenced by international media, reviewed by commentators and expert critics, and has even deserved the attention of the academic community (see, to cite but one example, the issue of the journal “Journal of African Cultural Studies” whose main dossier - “ Afro-Superheroes: Future Prepossessing ”- is entirely dedicated to them).
This exhibition, produced jointly by Maputo Fast Forward and the Comexposed festival (Zimbabwe), aims to make known some of the works produced on the continent (namely in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa and Zimbabwe), the creative studios and the authors who developed them and, above all, to contribute to a contextualization of this “phenomenon” through a reflection on the particular and specific characteristics of these “superheroes” in the wider context of the emergence of “new narratives” in Africa and movements such as “ Afro-Futurism ”.
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