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‘Steps for Life’ @ Camões Maputo
10:27 CAT | 9 May 2023
‘Steps for Life’ @ Camões Maputo
- Collective exhibition to raise funds for Mozambican visual artist Lizette Chirrime
The Camões Portuguese Cultural Centre in Maputo and Arte d’Gema Gallery have teamed up with a group of 32 Mozambican artists who have donated works for this sales-exhibition to help a colleague in the Mozambique arts community.
The collective exhibition brings together works by artists associated with this cause, namely: Butcheca, Celestino Mudaulane, Ciro, Datinho, Dito Tembe, Famós, Gemuce, Gonçalo Mabunda, Ídasse, João Donato, Jorge Dias, Júlio Dengucho, Lizette Chirrime, Luís Cardoso, Luís Santos, Luís Sozinho, Mapfara, Mariano Silva, Mateus Sithole, Mauro Pinto, Moisés Sambo, Mulalene, Pedro Mourana, Pekiwa, Samuel Djive, Saranga, Sérgio Simione, Simone Simbine, Thandi Pinto, Tsenani and Ulisses.
The exhibition 'Passos Pela Vida', dedicated to raising funds to address the health problem of the artist Lizette Chirrime, will run until the 20th of May at the Camões gallery (open Monday to Saturday, between 10:00 am and 5:00 pm).
Lizette Chirrime was born in Angoche (Nampula), Mozambique, in 1973 and grew up in Maputo, where she attended the Commercial School until she was 17.
Creating works of art using painting and sewing was always one of Chirrime’s preoccupations, although she never received any formal art education. In 2004, she held her first solo exhibition in Mozambique entitled ‘Metamorfoses de Saco’. In 2005, she attended a three-month residency at Greatmore Studios, Cape Town, which established her first connection with South Africa.
Chirrime has lived and worked in Cape Town for the last 15 years, having presented several solo exhibitions, such as, in 2012, her second solo exhibition, ‘A Sinfonia da Alma Liberta’ in Mozambique and, in 2016, ‘A Sinfonia da Alma Liberta II’, in South Africa.
Two years later, she presented ‘The Forms of Invisible Demands’, also in South Africa, and in 2020, ‘Mothers Gift’, also in South Africa
Chirrime returned to Mozambique in 2021, and now lives in Inhambane. The same year, she presented her sixth solo exhibition, ‘O Livro de Ndimande’.
She has in the course of her career participated in several group exhibitions in Germany, Norway, Portugal, France, South Africa, in addition to Mozambique.
Lizette Chirrime creates large-scale textile works. These consist of the combination of abstract forms represented in a collage of printed ‘tshwe-tshwe’ fabrics and other African prints associated with women’s clothing. The interplay between textiles, abstraction and art as a therapeutic and spiritual tool makes Chirrime’s art unique and distinctly African.
Lizette Chirrime has frequently presented her work in group and individual exhibitions, nationally and internationally. Her works are represented in several public and private collections. She was a finalist for Bright Young Things 2017, the Art Africa’s award and residency programme to support and celebrate contemporary vanguards.
- 'Passos Pela Vida', Collective Exhibition
- From Monday to Saturday between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.
- Camões - Centro Cultural Português em Maputo
- Av. Julius Nyerere, 720, Maputo, Mozambique
- Ends on Saturday, May 20th
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