VOX POPULI: SOLO SHOW BY NELO TEIXEIRA
Upcoming exhibition
Overview
The exhibition Vox Populi constitutes a monumental intervention that formalizes and problematizes the singular universe of Nelo Teixeira—one of the most distinctive figures in the landscape of contemporary Angolan art. Bringing together an unprecedented collection of around 20 works that, in terms of language, traverse the boundaries between self-taught naïve art, Art Brut, and sociopolitical narrative, the project traces a critical cartography of the human and social condition in Angola, rooted in the dialogue between precariousness, resistance, resilience, and memory.
The concept of vox populi, understood here as the resonance of the collective voice, emerges in Nelo Teixeira's practice through the graphic incorporation of vernacular expressions that simultaneously serve as denunciation and enunciation, poetic and political outcries.
In Nelo Teixeira’s installation practice, drawers, wooden boxes, and other architectural fragments emerge as powerful metaphors of shelter and displacement, construction and ruin. These forms, on the one hand, evoke the informal architecture of peripheral communities; on the other, they retrieve the artist's experience in stage design, establishing an inherent theatricality that positions the viewer as a co-actor in the social drama being enacted.
Thus, Vox Populi is articulated as an embodied polis: a space where the material, the vernacular, and the symbolic converge to give voice to a nation.
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