Pan African Unity Mural
De 28 junho a 8 outubro
MAAT Gallery
Pan African Unity Mural, the installation which Ângela Ferreira designed for MAAT’s Project Room, intersects her own biography with that of Miriam Makeba, the South African singer, and George Wright, an American fugitive. It also refers to Diego Rivera, the Mexican painter whose work was particularly relevant to South African artists who opposed the apartheid.
Ângela Ferreira, born and bred in the then-Portuguese colony of Mozambique, was affected both artistically and politically by her experience of apartheid when she was a student and during her first years as an artist living in South Africa. Her sensitivity, stemming from her condition of individual between-places, which is an integral part of the identity of many Africans, is the driving force behind her deep exploration of concepts which go beyond centre and periphery, and which emphasise the importance of perspective.
Pan African Unity Mural is based on the concept of contact area in order to counter simplistic constructions of identity.
