Artistic Residency From November 6th until the 20th at LAC
November 10th at 06pm Debate at Galeria LAR “Das Caravelas às Estufas: percursos da condição de escravo no Algarve entre os séculos XV e XXI” | Presentations: Prof. Arlindo Caldeira – “Being a slave in the Algarve in the 15th to 19th centuries”; Edileny Tomé da Mata – “From slavery to black-African citizenship: the case of Andalusia”; Sofia Justino (APF) – “APF Algarve’s Intervention with the Immigrant Population – reproductive sexuality and human trafficking” Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
November 11th at 10:30am – Commented Visit to the Slavery Route Museum and the medieval-modern urban nucleus with Elena Morán and Rui Parreira; at 06.30pm performance by musician M-PeX and dancer El Conguito, at Galeria LAR
Exhibition Opening Party November 18th, 06pm at Armazém Regimental de Lagos and Galeria LAR + Performance of musician M-PeX and dancer El Conguito, at Galeria LAR at 07.30pm
Exhibition from November 18th until January 27th 2018 at Galeria LAR and Lagos Regimental Warehouse, from Thursday to Saturday from 3pm to 8pm.
Curator: LAC
Production: LAC
Consultors: Elena Moran e Rui Parreira
Invited Artists: El Conguito (France), Kwame Sousa (S. Tomé e Principe), Mikko Angesleva (Finlad), Valdemar Doria (S. Tomé e Principe), M-PeX (Portugal)
Biographies
El Conguito born in Congo and raised in France, he started with Salsa lessons and at the age of 21 discovered Flamenco. He had his first lessons at “La Peña los Flamencos” in Lille, France and then with Maria Pérez at the Solea Centre in Marseille. She also participated in workshops with renowned artists such as, La Lupi, Pilar Ortega, Patricia Guerrero, El Choro. In 2015 he won the Valence (France) Flemish competition a duet with Justine Chabot and second prize at the Baile por Buleria competition in Nîmes (France). His dancing combines fire, energy, but also sensitivity and generosity. Everyone who has seen him dance agrees that he has an innate sense of timing, a stage presence and gracefulness that leaves no one indifferent.
Kwame Sousa was born on the Agostinho Neto farm in São Tomé and Príncipe in April 1980. He discovered his taste for art at the end of his pre-university education under the influence of classmates, and started drawing as a self-taught artist. In 2001 he was one of the winners of the experimentation project 01, which marked his presentation to the public in the Teia de Arte gallery. In 2002 he attended several workshops with artists from different parts of the world, which allowed him to connect and exchange experiences with different artistic languages. In the same year she integrated, together with the artist João Carlos Silva and others, the great project of the II Bienal de Arte de São Tomé e Príncipe. Also in 2002, she exhibited at the Instituto Politécnico do Porto (Portugal), followed by several individual and collective exhibitions in São Tomé and in several other countries. He started his academic career in Portugal in 2004, having passed through EPAOE – Escola de Artes e Ofícios do Espectáculo (CHAPITO) and then AR.CO – Escola de Arte Independente, where he studied painting and drawing. Recently, in 2014, he participated in the Venice Architecture Biennale and in the Lisbon Film Festival, with the video MiongaHouse – a project in conjunction with the artist Rene Tavares. At the moment he collaborates with the project CACAU – Casa das Artes Criação Ambiente e Utopia in São Tomé and Príncipe, with the gallery ZERO POINT ART (gallery and contemporary art space) in Mindelo, Cape Verde, with the foundation ROÇA MUNDO, in São Tomé and with the portal BUALA – contemporary culture portal. With exhibitions in several galleries around the world and participation in several editions of the Biennale of São Tome and Príncipe, Kwame Sousa belongs to the third generation of artists of his country and is currently considered one of the most influential contemporary plastic artists of São Tome and Príncipe.
Mikko Ängeslevä, born 1982 in Finland, works with various techniques in the field of creativity. Painter and sculptor, he has also worked for several years with performance. In the last years his work is based on recycling materials, combined with various techniques, where both figurative and non-figurative results are presented. The works seek to reveal the complex issue of life behind the veil of colours and shapes. Ängeslevä finished her secondary studies in art in Tammerkosken lukio in 2001. She studied sewing during 2003 – 2006. She was a fire juggler in the Flamma group from 2004 to 2008. He became a yoga instructor in 2011 after having practiced yoga for 10 years. In 2012 he continued his studies in fine arts and graduated in 2016 from Kankaanpää art school as a sculptor and painter. Apart from Finland he has also exhibited and performed other art activities in Sweden, France, Estonia, Latvia, Ghana and India. He currently lives and works in Kokemäki, Finland, in the old village school.
Valdemar Doria was born in São Tomé and Príncipe in 1974. In 1981 he moved to Portugal. In 1998 he finishes the Pre-Press Course at the Escola Profissional Val do Rio in Oeiras, Portugal. In 2001 /2003 he attends the Graphic Design Course, at Universidade Lusófona. He has more than 20 years illustrated with about 30 collective exhibitions and 15 individual ones. In his work he intends to value the African heritage. The faces, represented with insistence, in an attempt to identify or express the compulsive feeling of their behaviour in the systematic search for their identity unresolved by an urbanism lived with various factors of social affirmation. What are these factors? The unconditional condition of being black in a European metropolis, social injustice and the lack of opportunity to fight on equal rights. The expressive faces represented in his drawings question and manifest the daily life of European urbanity in symbiosis with the memories of a past from his native land.
M-PeX is a musician from Portugal, composer and producer who has in the Portuguese guitar the distinctive trait of his musical identity, positioning it as a solo instrument in diversified sound aesthetics, including electronic environments equally of his authorship. The experimentalism and the extensible improvisation, with resource to effects pedals and loops, are equally part of his artistic expression. His creations rehearse to modernize and globalize the Portuguese guitar, culminating in an innovative musical confluence.
