Ângela Ferreira | Each One Teach Each One

TALK
Each One Teach Each One 
Ângela Ferreira

The presentation will focus on how the Mozambican-born, South African art school graduate responded to the final years of apartheid. It will describe the local circumstances that informed and shaped her search for a politically meaningful and internationally pertinent contemporary art discourse and critical practice. The limitations of modernity in contemporary art are recognized. The artist's response is to investigate how to reference popular material culture (artefacts which are recognizable by a community and reflect political issues) as starting points for developing art works. 

Born in 1958 in Maputo (Mozambique), Ângela Ferreira obtained her MFA from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. She lives and works in Lisbon, teaching Fine Arts at Lisbon University. Ferreira’s work is concerned with the on-going impact of colonialism and post-colonialism on contemporary society. She has presented her work in numerous exhibitions worldwide and represented Portugal at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007. Her solo exhibitions include, among others, ‘Hard Rain Show’ (Berardo Museum / La Criée, Rennes, 2008), ‘Indépendance Cha Cha’ (Lumiar Cité, 2014) and ‘South Facing’ (Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa, 2017). 

The talk will be in English and takes place in the context of the exhibition Sarat Maharaj: AAH Room, which will be prolonged until 18.06.2017.

Admission is free, without registration and limited to the number of seats available. 

For further information, please contact:
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In collaboration with Konsthögskolan i Malmö/Malmö Art Academy / Lund University.

Lumiar Cité is funded by Ministério da Cultura / Direcção-Geral das Artes and supported by Câmara Municipal de Lisboai.