Curated by Francisco Vidal and Patrícia Leal, the ROOTS 2025 program brings together four artists from different backgrounds, each exploring the theme of roots in dialogue with the diaspora and…
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…
ROOTS 2024 > Guest Artist > Márcio Carvalho (Portugal) Coming from a family made up of Angolans and Portuguese, Márcio Carvalho shares ancestors from two different geographies, with distinct epistemological…
ROOTS 2024 > Guest Artist > José Miguel Gervásio (Portugal) José Miguel Gervásio (Montijo, October 28, 1968) Lives and works in Montemor-o-Novo. Graduated in Fine Arts - Painting (1989-1994) from…
ROOTS 2024 > Guest Artist > Eugénia Mussa (Mozambique)Eugénia Mussa (1978, Maputo, Mozambique) lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. She studied drawing and painting at Ar.Co - Centro de Arte…