Nelly and Nelsa Guambe open ‘Ndruye ni Ndruye’ in Maputo @ BCI gallery

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Nelly and Nelsa Guambe open ‘Ndruye ni Ndruye’ in Maputo @ BCI gallery

2:23 CAT | 12 Nov 2018

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The art gallery at the BCI Headquarters launches ‘Ndruye ni ndruye’, an exhibition by Mozambican visual artists Nelly and Nelsa Guambe open ‘Ndruye ni Ndruye’ in Maputo @ BCI gallery today at 7:30 p.m..

Twin sisters Nelly and Nelsa Guambe were born in 1987 in Inhambane, and now both live and work in Maputo. They recently co founded the Deal Creative Space in Maputo, which promotes Design, Entertainment, Arts, and Literature.

Location: BCI headquarters in Maputo (Avenida 25 de Setembro).

About Nelsa Guambe

Nelsa Guambe uses painting and photography as main channels for artistic expression. Her art represents ongoing African and especially Mozambican trends that inspire and awaken socially. In 2017 she Co-founded DEAL Creative Space in Maputo, which promotes local design, entertainment, art and literature. She holds a Bachelor’s degree (2010) in Public Administration and Development studies from UNISA (University of South Africa).

Nelsa Guambe is a self-taught artist and member of the Mozambican Artist Association “Núcleo de Arte” since 2010. She has had several solo exhibitions in Maputo, amongst other at the French Mozambican Cultural Centre (Maputo, 2016) and has participated in group exhibitions at various institutions within and outside the country amongst others DK Contemporary gallery (Cape Town, 2016) and Pure Gold: Upcycled/Upgraded – World Touring exhibition.

About Nelly Guambe

Nelly Guambe’s paintings explore and reflect on women’s emotions and circumstances. Using a combination of drawing and painting her work is subtly haunting yet delicate and restrained, evoking a feeling of restlessness that does not aim to resist nor represent the disquietude of the universe, but instead intends to express. Finding her inspiration in women whom she encounters in everyday life and work, as well as in herself, her art responds to a powerful urge to document and record their unknown state of being.

With their hallmark penetrating eyes, her portraits evoke a probing uncertainty, a certain restlessness that frequently leaves the viewer with questions rather than answers. The tension between positive and negative coexists in equal measure in each work – Guambe’s portraits perhaps shed light on the fundamental state of ambivalence in which many contemporary southern African women find themselves, amidst both opportunity and constraint.

Guambe’s first solo exhibition, “Inquietude (Restlessness)” took place in September 2017 at the Nucleo de Arte, Maputo. In 2018, her work has been included in two group shows at Guns & Rain in Johannesburg, as well as at the Mozambican Consulate in Hamburg, Germany. Guambe has recently exhibited at FNB JoburgArtFair (2018), in October 2018 her work was presented at Ed Cross Fine Art 1:54 London. Her work has been collected by Robert Devereux, amongst others.

Source: Club of Mozambique