ROOTS 2025 > Guest Artist > Amadeo Carvalho (Cape Verde) Amadeo Carvalho (b. 1985, São Vicente, Cape Verde) is a contemporary visual artist who works across painting, poetry, and photography.…
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…
ROOTS 2025 > Guest Artist > Sara Baga (Portugal) Sara Baga develops a transdisciplinary artistic practice situated at the intersection between ecology, cinema, and performing arts. As an artist, she…
ROOTS 2025 > Guest Artist > Modou Dieng Yacine (Senegal) Modou Dieng Yacine is a contemporary African visual artist based in Chicago, Illinois. Dieng Yacine has spent the last 20…
ROOTS 2025 > Co-curator > Francisco Vidal (Portugal / Angola) Born in Lisbon in 1978, the son of a Cape Verdean mother and Angolan father, Francisco Vidal has been exploring…
The ROOTS 2025 artist residency brings together artists from Portugal, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and Senegal, inviting them to reflect on roots as displacement, uprooting, and transformation, and the multiple layers…