Africa-Press – Angola. Two art exhibitions by artists Maria Belmira Gumbe, entitled “Weaving Memories” with weavings and fabric applications, and Samu Arte, called “A Viagem”, with sculptures in ferrous scrap, close today, at the Temporary Exhibitions Gallery of the Angola Pavilion. , at Expo 2020 Dubai.
The gallery’s curator, Carla Peairo, said that the two techniques and languages that apparently do not dialogue with each other, find unity in the messages of rescuing the traditional and social values they convey.
For the artist Maria Belmira Gumbe, the exhibition “Weaving Memories” is the result of years of research and maturity, which “symbolizes the memories of the daily life of my childhood and a tribute to the most important women in my life like my grandmother and my mother, but also other women who reflect a collective memory of Angola”.
With the development of new technologies, he said, I intend to translate my Angolan experiences, emotions, myths and the expressiveness of the body, through the techniques of embroidery, application in fabric, weaving and tapestry, with materials made from natural and industrial fibers, as well as translate the symbiosis of the traditional and the modern.
“This is my contribution to the rescue of the valorization of traditional Angolan techniques that are at risk of disappearing, in a perspective of their contemporaneity”. collection of ethnographic symbols from the Côkwe of Northeastern Angola, such as Tshimunga, the Angola vulture and Tshitwangimbu, the serpentine bird.
Maria Belmira also shows embroidery and fabric applications, in large format, where she translates imaginary landscapes and expressiveness of the female body. The artist Samu Arte presents sculptures in ferrous scrap where he expresses themes related to social needs and the pollution of the seas, calling attention to the importance of recycling as an artistic medium and a positive impact on the preservation of our planet.
Maria Belmira Gumbe was born in Luanda. She has a degree in Cultural Studies from the Fernando Pessoa University of Porto, Portugal. Manuel Francisco Samuel, or simply Samu Arte, is from the municipality of Cazenga, Bairro Hoji-ya-Henda, in Luanda.
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