ROOTS 2025 > Guest Artist > Marilú Mmaapengo Námoda (Mozambique)
Marilú Mmaapengo Námoda is a visionary artist, healer, and post-activist who engages with the politics of birthing other futures. His practice questions the possibility of love as an ancestral cosmic-political force capable of healing the “colonial wound” in its multiple expressions of neocolonialism, cis-hetero-patriarchy, and capitalism. Through hybrid and experimental forms, her work intertwines performance art, installation, painting, and video art with post-activist thinking rooted in the wisdom of Mother Earth and Bantu philosophy and spirituality.
In 2023, Námoda was one of three winners of the Paulo Cunha e Silva Award, granted by the Municipal Gallery of Porto, Portugal. Her work has been presented at the Hessian Theater Academy in Frankfurt (2024); the Santarcangelo Festival in Santarcangelo (2022); the Spielart Festival in Munich (2021); Kaserne Basel in Basel (2021); among others.
Financed by: República Portuguesa – Cultura, Juventude e Desporto, Direção-Geral das Artes and Município de Lagos
Support: Museu de Lagos, Município de Caldas da Rainha / Centro de Artes, CAAA – Centro para os Assuntos de Arte e Arquitectura (Guimarães), Messe Militar de Lagos, Teatro Experimental de Lagos
