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For the opening of its new venue in Rome, this London gallery introduced Bertina Lopes, a little-known artist with a multicultural upbringing who inhabited many different social and political milieus. Born in 1924 in Mozambique—then a Portuguese colony—and of mixed race, she was sent to study in Lisbon at the age of twelve, first at the António Arroio School of Decorative Arts and later at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts. After returning to Mozambique in 1953, she taught art and began exhibiting her work in 1956, influencing local artists. On account of her increasing involvement in antico...

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Amílcar Cabral's vision of liberation through the creative expression of the oppressed remains central to contemporary anti-colonial struggle.

Gonçalo Mabunda was selected to be featured in the Africa Present: SUPPORT section Drawing from his heritage centralized in the political locus of Maputo, Gonçalo Mabunda underlines the iconographic essence of transforming arms into art in the context of post-independence Mozambique. Mabunda was born in 1975, during the same period when the country experienced freedom from Portugal, and a civil war that would last a decade and a half. At the age of seven, he first gained contact with the AK-47 belonging to his uncle, a Frelimo soldier. Later he trained in Durban, becoming a select one of 10...