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Author: Elizabeth Pozo Rubio

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Claiming space: Female voices reinventing contemporary art in Angola

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In the contemporary context of Luanda, these artists incorporate critical subjectivities that transform the artistic space. They rewrite narratives about gender, nature, memory, and power. Their practices not only make social and ecological wounds visible, but also affirm the capacity for agency and reinvention.

Elizabeth Elizabeth Pozo Rubio on Female voices reinventing contemporary art in Angola

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Artistic practices emerge as a place of agency, a place to intervene asymmetries, to reappropriate our own corporeality’s, to decolonize identity constructions and to discover emancipated and committed aesthetics.

Elizabeth Pozo Rubio  on a group show of emerging female artists

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