Exhibition “Ango-Metapor da Death” by Gegé M'Bakudi - Noticias

The exhibition brings together more than fifteen (15) works, including paintings, installations and photographs, three (3) of which were conceived especially for this exhibition in Benguela.

Through a contemporary and provocative approach, the artist invites the public to reflect on themes such as identity, memory, death and resistance in the Angolan context.
As part of the exhibition program, Gegé M’Bakudi will hold two (2) free workshops on the 27th and 28th of May, from 2pm to 6pm, aimed at visual artists, plastic artists, curators and thinkers from the province of Benguela.

According to the artist, the objectives of these workshops are:
1- Create an immersive space for communication between participants and the artist;
2- Introduce visual storytelling techniques;
3- Explore cultural identity and artistic expression from a social perspective;
4- Develop authorial projects using contemporary tools such as video art and painting.

In the words of Gegé M’Bakudi:

“Contemporary narratives of Angolan daily life explore, through visual arts, the daily life of the population, their customs, challenges and identities. These expressions involve painting, sculpture, photography, installations, performance and digital art.
The workshops delve into my practices and experiences as an Angolan artist, whose trajectory is marked by experimentation, collaboration and the development of unique artistic languages. I invite participants to explore the intersections between tradition, contemporaneity and vision of the future.”

The Work and the Meaning

The writer José Paciência describes the exhibition as:

“Art is more than aesthetics: it is denunciation, it is routine disguised as death, it is a comic strip with dried blood and historical silences. This exhibition exposes a people who breathe through stubbornness, smile with broken teeth and transform their pain into art.”

For him, this is an exhibition where:
“Death, as an artist, molds us into works exhibited in the galleries of survival, where captions are unnecessary because suffering is evident on everyone's face.”
About the Artist

Gegé M’Bakudi, born on December 15, 1999, in Luanda (former municipality of Sambizanga), began his artistic career in childhood, having consolidated his artistic career during his adolescence.
He studied Civil Engineering between 2015 and 2019 at the Escola Superior Industrial de Luanda (Makarenco), but later abandoned his dream of being an architect to pursue a career as an independent artist.
His artistic practice is multidisciplinary, moving between painting, photography and video performance.
His work uses the imaginary as a way of reinterpreting Angolan sociopolitical scenarios through metaphorical interventions.
Gegé uses art as a tool for questioning and resistance, promoting new understandings about the body, time and space.

Cultural Commitment

According to Mário Nascimento, Regional Director of Africell:
“Africell, through the Africell Impact Foundation, reaffirms its commitment to culture and the promotion of the arts in Angola, creating platforms for artistic expression and strengthening the country's cultural identity.”

The exhibition “ANGO-METÁFORA DA MORTE” represents yet another example of Africell’s ongoing commitment to the socio-cultural development of the communities where it operates, carrying out its commercial activity in the telecommunications sector.
The exhibition will be open to the public from 28 May to 27 June 2025, at Galeria 10A, in Benguela.
Africell invites the public to visit the exhibition and discover the strength and creativity of Angolan art through the work of Gegé M’Bakudi.

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