Ângela Ferreira

Ângela Ferreira - Study for Crouch-touch-pause-engage (8)

Technique: Pastel on paper

Artist Biography: Ângela Ferreira Maputo, 1958. Lives and works in Lisbon.Ângela FerreiraHas had solo and group exhibitions at MAAT, Lisbon; CGAC, Santiago de Compostela; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Culturgest, Lisbon; The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow; Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona; Bildmuseet, Umeå; Museu de Serralves, Oporto; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg; DePaul Art Museum - Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Museu Berardo, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon; Stroom, The Hague; Stills Stills, The Hague; Stills, Stills; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Museu Berardo, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon; Stroom, The Hague; Stills, Edinburgh; ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art, Cape Town; Centro de ArteModerna / Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; SKD - Kunsthalleim Lipsiusbau, Dresden; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; SCAD Museumof Art, Savannah, Georgia; Museu Nacional de Arte, Maputo; OsloMuseum, Oslo; Parasol Unit, London.He has participated in the biennials of São Paulo, Lubumbashi, Gwangju, Taipei, Bucharest and Venice, in the last one he represented the Portuguese Pavilion in its 52nd edition.Her work belongs to important international collections, such as: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia; MACBA, Fundación ARCO, CGAC, Fundación la Caixa, in Spain; Fundação EDP, Fundação de Serralves, Coleção António Cachola, Coleção DGARTES, Culturgest, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and Fundação PLMJ, in Portugal; FRACRennes, France; Market Gallery Foundation, South Africa.Ângela Ferreira, born in Maputo, Mozambique, grew up in South Africa and earned her MFA from the Michaelis School of Fine Arts, University of Cape Town.Ferreira's work is concerned with the continuing impact of colonialism and post-colonialism on contemporary society, an investigation she conducts in depth with the materialization of ideas in a concise and resonant formalization.He represented Portugal at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007 with a continuation of his research on the mechanisms through which European modernism has sought to adapt, failing on numerous occasions, to the realities of the African continent, with a project that was conceived from the history of Jean Prouvé's "Maison Tropicale". The architecture also serves as a starting point to deepen his long research on the erasure of colonial memory and the refusal to make reparations. On the other hand, his sculptural, sound and video tributes make constant reference to the economic, political and cultural history of the African continent, while recovering the work and image of unexpected figures such as Peter Blum, Carlos Cardoso, Ingrid Jonker, Jimi Hendrix, Jorge Ben Jor, Jorge dos Santos, Diego Rivera or Miriam Makeba.