Africa-Press – Angola. The collective exhibition “Tondongo, o Universo Feminino” is on display from Monday until the 20th, at the Angola Pavilion Art Gallery, at Expo 2020 Dubai, in celebration of International Women’s Day, which was celebrated yesterday.
The official opening took place yesterday, International Women’s Day, and features the opening speech by the Angolan Commissioner for Expo Dubai, Albina Assis Africano.
The collective show brings together artists from various horizons, thus showing the diversity and richness of contemporary art celebrated by women and aims to create ties of cultural exchange, strengthening the exchange of experiences in the artistic sphere.
32 works are presented in different artistic styles such as painting, sculpture, modeling, application in fabric, photography and presentations by nine artists.
Armanda Alves, Carla Peairo, Daniela Ribeiro, Fineza Teta and Maria Belmira Gumbe, who have already participated in solo exhibitions at the Gallery, present works from the series “A Dinâmica do Ser”, “Traces of a Legacy”, “Ancestrality and Technology”, “Symbiosis ” and “Tecendo Memórias”, respectively. These artists are joined by Angolan dance performer and choreographer, Aneth Silva, in this international exhibition. Anastasie Akibodé, French with African roots dating back to Cape Verde, Benin and Senegal, presents “Energias Artísticas interconnected”; Miriam Rodriguez, born in Portugal, with origins from Cape Verde and Angola, shows the “Renascer” collection and the plastic artist Márcia Dias, Angolan and cultural ambassador of the Óscar Ribas Foundation, presents the set of works “Resilience”.
Curated by Carla Peairo, “Tondongo, the Feminine Universe, ritualistic, feminine and African sacrifice” is an exhibition that symbolizes the gestation of being and marks the union of different languages that harmonize in the common feeling of strength and creativity.
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