The works of painting, sculpture and installation are a sensitive journey through the human geographies that marked Sebastião Coana's trajectory - from Monapo, Nampula, Manhiça and Maputo to Moshi (Tanzania), Beijing (China) and Paris (France), and can be seen in Maputo.
The works of artist Sebastião Coana, which make up the exhibition "Territories of Memory", are fragments of encounters, faces and silences that resist oblivion.
Thus, each work that Sebastião Coana brings to the exhibition proposes a gesture of listening and recognition, and calls for the presence of the other and challenges the invisibility of everyday life in Mozambique and Africa.
With an expressive visual language, marked by the strength of colour, texture and gesture, Coana constructs an emotional map where individual memory intertwines with collective memory, as is the case with his installations and paintings.
Sebastião Coana is a multidisciplinary Mozambican artist whose work encompasses oil painting, urban art, sculpture and public installations. His artistic work is recognised for its rich textures, use of vibrant colours and strong connection with everyday Mozambican life, presented in exhibitions and on murals and public and private infrastructures. The front façade of the Matola Municipal Council headquarters and the staircases of the Maxaquene barriers are some of his works.
(By MozaVibe)
