Mozambique: National artists, activists to exhibit for first time in Lisbon

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Mozambique: National artists, activists to exhibit for first time in Lisbon

7:18 CAT | 25 Feb 2022

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Mozambican artists and activists Nália Agostinho and Taíla Carrilho inaugurate on Saturday the exhibition “Synergy of Emotions”, at Espaço Espelho D’Água, in Lisbon, with women as an omnipresent theme in the works, exhibited for the first time in Portugal.

The exhibition brings together for the first time these artists, who live in Maputo, and in their work there will be themes such as “gender issues, discrimination, inclusion and social exclusion of women in Mozambique and in the African continent”.

The artists’ creative interest also includes themes related to “isolation and emotion affected by the issues of the current crisis”.

Twenty pieces will be on show until 30 March, including a series of paintings, drawings and illustrations using acrylic, oil pastel, charcoal and oil paint, China ink and water colours on canvas and paper.

The artists “use literature in moments of pause to complement their creative process, resorting, in this case, to poetry and prose”.

The exhibition is the result of “a great internal dive for fundamental self-analysis, which proves the need to learn to deal with changes, losses and cycles”, indicates the gallery that hosts it.

“Through their African heritage, Taíla and Nália perceive death as one of life’s few certainties. According to their beliefs, death does not mean an end point, but a change of state, leaving aside the physical body to make way for another way of being in space. And this applies in both a literal and figurative sense. There is no end, there is a transformation,” the briefing continues.

Source: Lusa