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Portugal: Galleria 111 opens “Blackmoney” by Mozambican photographer Mauro Pinto
3:03 CAT | 18 Sep 2020
Photo: Mauro Pinto via Koffie Luso
“Blackmoney”, an exhibition by Mozambican photographer Mauro Pinto and covering life in Mozambique’s mines, opens in Lisbon next Saturday, Lusa reports.
The exhibition opens to the public at Galeria 111, and runs until November 9.
“In the work of Mauro Pinto (born in Maputo, 1974) we are called to meet with the social space and with the living and existential conditions of a society that is in constant question”, an essay on “ Blackmoney” by curator João Silvério reads.
“As an artist working on the photographic image, the political positioning (of Mauro Pinto) is situated in a perspective that is part of an anthropological approach in one of the many ways in which we can observe humanity.”
Images from this series were part of the project “The Past, The Present and The In Between”, which the Mozambican pavilion took to the Venice Art Biennial in 2018, as a reflection of the country’s past, and the impact of that past on today’s society.
The images, in black and white, show life in the mines, the working conditions, linked in decisive details like hands and looks.
In 2012, Mauro Pinto won the 8th edition of the old BESPhoto contest, with a photographic project carried out in Bairro da Mafalala, in Maputo.
At the time, the international jury of the prize highlighted “the artist’s delivery of the reality of the people who inhabit the spaces”, simultaneously transmitting “a historical and sociological perspective of contemporary Mozambican reality”.
Mauro Pinto lives and works in Mozambique. In the late 1990s, he took a photography course at Monitor Internacional School, which he accompanied with an internship with photographer José Machado.
Mauro Pinto lives and works in Mozambique. In the late 1990s, he took a photography course at Monitor International School, during which time he also interned with photographer José Machado.
He was the winner of the BESPhoto award in 2012, and was selected for the Venice Biennale in 2018. He has exhibited in the Cadaval Palace, in Évora, and the Franco-Mozambican Cultural Centre in Mozambique. He has also participated in collective exhibitions at Galeria 111 in Lisbon and Oporto, and at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon and Paris.
Galeria 111 is on the Rua Dr. João Soares in Campo Grande, Lisbon, and is open from Tuesday to Saturday, from 10 am to 7 pm. The gallery is closed on Sundays, Mondays and on public holidays.
Source: Lusa
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