Presented by the African Art Galleries Association (AAGA), African Galleries Now, in partnership with ARTSY, brings together a network of 10 pan-African galleries showcasing contemporary African art from the continent.

For this occasion, until April 15, MOVART is presenting a selection of artworks by Alice Marcelino and Keyezua, from Angola, Kwame Sousa, from São Tomé e Príncipe, and Márcio Carvalho, from Portugal.

Alice Marcelino, faced by her interest in notions of ritual and tradition, began photographing the funerals of this population and exploring feelings we all know – of loss, but also of celebration and community.

Keyezua work combines interviews and photographs, resulting in an emotional and psychological survey of the relationship that human beings cultivate with objects.

Kwame Sousa, born in São Tomé and Príncipe in 1980, is a truly multidisciplinary artist who explores a wide range of media, techniques and styles. Influenced by colleagues, Kwame developed a taste for art at the end of pre-university education, and then he began drawing.

Márcio Carvalho uses a network of archives in the series “The Era of Involuntary Memory”, composed of transformed original photographs, portraits of Portuguese and Germanic origin, two countries where the artist has lived and developed his work. Through a cumulative process, we find these portraits reconfigured under a strangeness that transits between the imaginary of historical visual references, and a kind of mask(s) as a vision of monstrosity in the human face.

The AAGA 2023 brings together a broad community of arts professionals championing the growth and sustainability of contemporary African visual arts on the continent and supports its future leaders.

Source: ARTSY.