Alida Rodrigues Angola, b. 1983
Alida Rodrigues (born in 1983, Angola, living in the UK) works with issues related to archive, memory, and identity, the manipulation of history, and the sterilization of culture. Alida's works promote a deep reflection on the modern and contemporary status of the image, its proliferation and circulation ways, the powers and limits of the image, and its anthropological dimension.
It deals centrally with the "history of forgetting", a discipline that has exerts fascination in the audience and, which has been produced over the centuries in different ways but always linked to the erasure of memory, the manipulation, or partial destruction of images and names. Her work integrates profusely in the contemporary movement of the restructuring of the historiography of African countries.
EDUCATION:
- BA Fine Art, The Slade School of Fine Art (University College London), London 2007
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
- Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim 2014
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
- O Silêncio da Terra: visualidades (pós)coloniais intercetadas pelo Arquivo Diamang, Museu Nogueira da Silva, Braga, Portugal, 2021
- Discursos de Decolonialidade, Not a Museum, Lisbon, 2020 (produced by This is Not a White Cube - Art Gallery).
- Taxidermia do Futuro, Museu Nacional de Historia Natural de Angola, (SIEXPO), Luanda 2019
- Intersections Within The Global South, Galeria Banco Economico, Luanda 2019, (produced by This is Not a White Cube - Art Gallery).
- Mythopoeia, Tiwani Contemporary, London 2015
- Interchange Junctions, Howick Place, London 2014
RESIDENCY:
Anthologia Residency & Open Studio, Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), London 2014
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Reflect #2 - FRAGMENTS, FRAGILITIES, MEMORIES
GROUP SHOW: THE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART, BELGRADE (SERBIA) 13 April - 31 August 2022The exhibition 'Reflect#2 - FRAGMENTS, FRAGILITIES, MEMORIES,' held at the Museum of African Art in Belgrade (Serbia) in collaboration with THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE Art Gallery, contains carefully...Read more -
Intersections - Within the Global South
Group Show: Galeria Banco Económico 26 November 2019 - 16 January 2020THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE art gallery, the Banco Económico, and the South African Gallery MOMO, present, in Luanda: “Intersections - Within the Global South”. The exhibition puts in...Read more
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African Galleries Now x Artsy 2020
Group Show: ALIDA RODRIGUES, LUÍS DAMIÃO, RENÉ TAVARES, and OSVALDO FERREIRA 23 November - 13 December 2020THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE is showing a curated project with unreleased works of photography by ALIDA RODRIGUES (Angola), LUÍS DAMIÃO (Angola), and RENÉ...Read more -
AKAA - Also Known As Africa 2020
Group Show: Alida Rodrigues, Barbara Wildenboer, and Pedro Pires 12 - 15 November 2020ARTIST CONVERSATIONS AKAA PARIS 2020 - DIGITAL CONFERENCES PROGRAM As a selected artist of the 2020 AKAA Art Fair edition, ALIDA RODRIGUES , represented by...Read more -
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair London 2020
Group Show: Alida Rodrigues, Nelo Teixeira, Pedro Pires, and Patrick Bongoy 8 - 10 October 2020For 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair - London 2020, This Is Not a White Cube presents a curatorial project connecting unreleased artworks by 4 contemporary...Read more -
Cape Town Art Fair 2020
Group Show: Alida Rodrigues, Januario Jano, Nelo Teixeira, and René Tavares 14 - 16 February 2020THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE presents a project connecting unreleased artworks by 4 contemporary artists from Angola, São Tomé e Príncipe and its diaspora,...Read more
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Artists show collective performance at the Banco Económico gallery
Jornal O País, 28 November 2019 -
Painting of eight countries in collective show
Mário Cohen, Jornal de Angola, 29 November 2019 -
Aïcha Snoussi and Alida Rodrigues: Constructed Mythos
Ladi’Sasha Jones, The Art Momentum, 1 February 2020 -
Alida Rodigues by Armelle Dakouo
Armelle Dakouo, AKAA JOURNAL, 2020, 1 November 2020 -
Collective Exhibition: Intersections - Within the Global South
Juciria Rodrigues, Jornal Mercado, 2 December 2019 -
REFLECT #2: FRAGMENTS, FRAGILITIES, MEMORIES
por VÁRIOS, Buala, 13 April 2022 -
REFLECT #2: FRAGMENTS, FRAGILITIES, MEMORIES The Museum of African Art, Belgrade
Ana Knezevic & Emilia Epstajn, ICOM National Committee Magazine, 15 September 2022 -
This Is NOT A White Cube e MOMO Gallery promovem exposição “Intersections – Within the Global South”
Jucíria Rodrigues, Jornal Vanguarda, 1 January 2020