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‘Fico a Ver o Lá Daqui’ – Jorge Dias’ solo exhibition @ Camões Maputo
11:38 CAT | 14 February 2025
‘Fico a Ver o Lá Daqui’ – Jorge Dias’ solo exhibition @ Camões Maputo
- The exhibition “Fico a Ver o Lá Daqui” will be open to the public at the Camões – Portuguese Cultural Centre gallery in Maputo until March 15.
- Visiting hours are Monday to Friday, from 10 am to 5 pm.
- Entrance is free.
The exhibition “Fico a Ver o Lá Daqui” [“I’ll be Watching the There From Here”] by Jorge Dia marks the start of the annual program of Camões – Portuguese Cultural Centre in Maputo and the return of the Dias’ (solo) work to this exhibition space, after having presented the “Plano das Coisas” [Plan of Things] in 2017.
According to Jorge Dias, the exhibition “is about the here and now, about memories and cultural values, about the process of building a common identity and its permanent transformation. It is about the questions we ask ourselves, which give meaning to the life we have. It is the path to new dialogues and meanings”.
The exhibition at the Portuguese Cultural Centre Gallery features a special guest appearance by historian Alda Costa, who wrote an unpublished text that refers to one of the guidelines that the Portuguese Cultural Centre wants to highlight in this new season: “In the year that marks 50 years of independent Mozambique, giving visibility to its artists with an exhibition by Jorge Dias (b.1972) can only be a good omen for a greater appreciation of Mozambican creation,." it reads.
Alda Costa's text also states that: “In the works that Jorge Dias presents in each exhibition, reflecting his unique approach to art, he uses an accumulative process. He delves deeper into ideas and forms present in previous projects, connects past and present, reuses and recreates, building bridges.”
“Fico a Ver o Lá Daqui” will be open to the public at the Camões – Portuguese Cultural Centre gallery in Maputo until March 15.
- Visiting hours are: Monday to Friday, from 10 am to 5 pm.
- Entrance is free.
Bio
Jorge Dias was born in 1972 in Maputo. He studied Ceramics at the National School of Visual Arts in Maputo between 1987 and 1992 and graduated in Sculpture at the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in 2002.
He has held solo and group exhibitions at various institutions, including the following: “Humano” at the National Museum of Art, with Gemuce, Maputo in 2005; “Zoologia dos Trópicos” at the Lagos Cultural Center, Lagos/Portugal, with the Brazilian Nelson Leirner, in 2005; “Lisbon-Luanda-Maputo” at the Torreão Nascente Gallery of the Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon/Portugal, in 2007; “Réplica e Rebeldia” in Mozambique, Brazil, Cape Verde and Angola, in 2007); Biennale of São Tomé and Príncipe, in 2008); “Angaza Africa” at the October Gallery, London/United Kingdom, in 2008; “Africa Now” at the World Bank, Washington DC/USA, in 2009; “Africa 2.0” at Influx Contemporary Art Lisbon/Portugal, in 2012; “Zoology of Flows” and “Places of Passage” at the Franco-Mozambican Cultural Center, in 2007 and 2015; “Processes” at Kulungwana, in 2013; “Transparency: Creative Processes and Daydreams” and “Plan of Things” at Camões – Portuguese Cultural Center – Maputo in 2010 and 2017; PLMJ Foundation Space, with Lino Damião, Lisbon/Portugal, in 2012, “Pancho: Other Forms and Views” with Sónia Sultuane, in Maputo and Ilha de Moçambique, in 2018; “An Urbanist of Memory” at AT | AL | 609 – Place of Artistic Research in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil and Native Species with the artist Genivaldo Amorim, in Valinhos, São Paulo, Brazil in 2022.
He has curated several projects at national and international level, the highlights being: ARCO´06 Art Fair, in 2006; Lisbon Art Fair, in 2004 and 2008; Expo Contemporary Art Mozambique, 2004/06/08/10); as co-curator of the TDM Biennial “The Machine That Wanted to Fly”, 2007 and of the TDM Biennial “Spaces of Today: challenges and limits”, in 2009.
He was curator at the National Museum of Art in Maputo (2006 – 2010), director of the National School of Visual Arts (2010 – 2017), deputy director of the National Museum of Art (2017). and is currently the Coordinator of the Guimarães Rosa Institute in Maputo.
Jorge Dias is a founding member of the Contemporary Art Movement of Mozambique – MUVART. He lives and works in Maputo.
Source: Camões – Centro Cultural Português em Maputo / Press Release
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