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‘Idas e Vindas’ : Ricardo Rangel at the Franco-Mozambican Cultural Centre in Maputo
9:41 CAT | 8 July 2025
‘Idas e Vindas’ : Ricardo Rangel at the Franco-Mozambican Cultural Centre in Maputo
Millennium bim and the Franco-Mozambican Cultural Centre (CCFM) open the exhibition “Comings and Goings” at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 8 July,. The ‘Idas e Vindas’ will be on display in the CCFM Exhibition Room until 4 August.
The exhibition presents a selection of 49 photographs by Ricardo Rangel, the result of work developed by four final year students from the École Supérieure d’Art de La Réunion, on Reunion Island, as part of their research programme “Arts, Landscapes and Insularities”.
Accompanied by their teachers, the students went on a study trip to Maputo at the end of 2024, where they delved into Ricardo Rangel’s vast collection, preserved at the Centre for Documentation and Photographic Training of Mozambique, an institution founded by the photographer himself.
From over 2,000 digitized images, they selected those that best engage with the themes explored in their artistic careers, such as urban and rural daily life, simple gestures, collective memory and the connections between territory and identity, proposing a contemporary reading of Rangel’s legacy and crossing perspectives between Mozambique and the Indian Ocean.
The exhibition was first presented on Reunion Island, during the colloquium “Forms and Memories of Mozambique and Reunion: Crossed and Parallel stories” [Formes et mémoires du Mozambique et de La Réunion: Histoires croisées parallèles], and has now arrived in Maputo, opening a new chapter of dialogue around Rangel’s work.
The day after the inauguration, Wednesday, July 9, at 6:30 p.m., the CCFM Auditorium will host a round table entitled “Visual Journeys: Memories and Resistance in the Eyes of Ricardo Rangel”, which will start from the exhibition to promote a conversation open to researchers, students, photographers and the general public.
This round table proposes a dialogue about the city of Maputo as a territory of critical observation, memory and resistance, based on the photographs by Ricardo Rangel presented in the exhibition “Idas e Vindas”.
The panel will feature the participation of Rafael Bordalo (CDFF), Belchior Canivete (researcher) and Isaias Fuel (researcher and teacher).
The exhibition is being held with the support of Millennium bim, a partner of CCFM in the promotion of arts and culture in Mozambique. With this support, the bank reaffirms its commitment to encouraging artistic creation and intercultural dialogue, actively contributing to the valuing of Mozambican cultural heritage.
Ricardo Rangel
Ricardo Rangel was born in 1924 in Maputo (formerly Lourenço Marques), Mozambique and died in Maputo in 2009.
He was a photojournalist, whose work focused on denouncing colonization, which led to his arrest on several occasions. His photographs tell the story of Mozambique through the gestures and daily activities of the population. Focused on human beings, his images are documentary, committed and critical. Around Ricardo Rangel, a Mozambican school of “realism” was formed.
A mixed-race man of Greek, Chinese and African origin, he was, in 1952, the first non-white person to work as a photojournalist for the Mozambican newspaper Notícias da Tarde. Considered one of the fathers of African photography, Ricardo Rangel also contributed to the development, professionalization and promotion of photography in Mozambique, by founding, in the early 1980s, the Mozambican Photography Association, and later the Center for Documentation and Photographic Training.
He is represented by Afronova Gallery (Johannesburg).
Source: Millennium bim / Press Release
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