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Resonance of Form: A Tribute to Sarah Baartman: Solo Show by Ilídio Candja Candja

Past exhibition
8 March - 4 May 2024
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Resonance of Form: A Tribute to Sarah Baartman, Solo Show by Ilídio Candja Candja

The show stems from the artist's increasing interest in the ways in which a new model of significance was generated and shaped by the historical and civilisational encounter between Africa and Europe. It includes around 12 new works divided into three distinct sections, including the body of work that gives the exhibition its name and pays homage to Sarah Baartman.

 

By evoking this iconic figure - also known as the "Hottentot Venus" - exulted during the colonial period as an object of curiosity and spectacle, whose history reflects the fetishisation of African women's bodies and the endemic racism rooted in science, Ilídio Candja Candja seeks to challenge and subvert the inveterate colonial narratives, promoting the resignification and recovery of control over the representation of the body, identity and historical and collective memory.


Through this exhibition, Candja's space of creative expression becomes a stage for asserting power and affirming humanity in the face of oppression. Equally, the formal and technical exploration via gestualism and abstract expressionism adds a layer of complexity to the engagement with Baartman's story.


In the lens of abstraction, the artist transcends the field of literal representation to evoke profound emotional and conceptual responses. The use of colour and textures, the babelic composition and the musical allusion present in the resonance and reverberation of the forms become language exercises of a metaphorical and metamorphic nature, through which the artist evokes, under the spectre of resilience, the idea of the persistence of notions of funestation and mourning in the dilation of the processes of historical reparation.

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Works
  • Ilídio Candja Candja, Blind #2, 2023
    Ilídio Candja Candja, Blind #2, 2023
  • Ilídio Candja Candja, Body´s Meditation, 2023
    Ilídio Candja Candja, Body´s Meditation, 2023
  • Ilídio Candja Candja, Desert blues #3, 2022
    Ilídio Candja Candja, Desert blues #3, 2022
  • Ilídio Candja Candja, Heritage #1, 2022
    Ilídio Candja Candja, Heritage #1, 2022
  • Ilídio Candja Candja, Heritage #2, 2022
    Ilídio Candja Candja, Heritage #2, 2022
  • Ilídio Candja Candja, Heritage #3, 2022
    Ilídio Candja Candja, Heritage #3, 2022
  • Ilídio Candja Candja Looking at the sky, 2023 Mixed media on canvas 110 x 90 cm
    Ilídio Candja Candja
    Looking at the sky, 2023
    Mixed media on canvas
    110 x 90 cm
  • Ilídio Candja Candja The Roots, 2023 Mixed media on canvas 100 x 90 cm
    Ilídio Candja Candja
    The Roots, 2023
    Mixed media on canvas
    100 x 90 cm
  • Ilídio Candja Candja, Untitled, 2023
    Ilídio Candja Candja, Untitled, 2023
  • Ilídio Candja Candja, Untitled, 2023
    Ilídio Candja Candja, Untitled, 2023
  • Ilídio Candja Candja Untitled, 2023 Mixed media on canvas 120 x 110 cm
    Ilídio Candja Candja
    Untitled, 2023
    Mixed media on canvas
    120 x 110 cm
  • Ilídio Candja Candja Untitled, 2019 Mixed media on paper 107 x 75 cm
    Ilídio Candja Candja
    Untitled, 2019
    Mixed media on paper
    107 x 75 cm
  • Ilídio Candja Candja, Untitled, 2022
    Ilídio Candja Candja, Untitled, 2022
  • Ilídio Candja Candja Untitled, 2023 Mixed media on paper 150 x 114 cm
    Ilídio Candja Candja
    Untitled, 2023
    Mixed media on paper
    150 x 114 cm
  • Ilídio Candja Candja Untitled, 2023 Mixed media on paper 150 x 114 cm
    Ilídio Candja Candja
    Untitled, 2023
    Mixed media on paper
    150 x 114 cm
  • Ilídio Candja Candja, Voodoo soup, Celebration, 2023
    Ilídio Candja Candja, Voodoo soup, Celebration, 2023
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Events
  • VERNISSAGE | RESONANCE OF FORM: A TRIBUTE TO SARAH BAARTMAN

    VERNISSAGE | RESONANCE OF FORM: A TRIBUTE TO SARAH BAARTMAN

    SOLO SHOW BY ILÍDIO CANDJA CANDJA 8 March 2024
    Join us in Lisbon for the opening cocktail of Ilídio Candja Candja's solo show - 'Resonance of Form: A Tribute to Sarah Baartman' - on March 8th, between 6 and 9 pm! Born in 1976 in Maputo, Mozambique, Ilídio Candja Candja received his education at the National School of Visual Arts of Maputo. Candja Candja's artistic journey unfolds as a continuous evolution, marked by a nuanced exploration of individual and collective memory. His practice is distinguished by a critical reflection on the past, present, and future, with a notable focus...
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  • VERNISSAGE | RESONANCE OF FORM: A TRIBUTE TO SARAH BAARTMAN Events

    VERNISSAGE | RESONANCE OF FORM: A TRIBUTE TO SARAH BAARTMAN

    SOLO SHOW BY ILÍDIO CANDJA CANDJA 8 March 2024
    Join us in Lisbon for the opening cocktail of Ilídio Candja Candja's solo show - 'Resonance of Form: A Tribute to Sarah Baartman' - on...
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