Visual Artist

Doors of the Musseque

"Doors of the Musseque" is a project that led me to try to understand how people lived in the musseques (slums) in Angola. It's a work that involved researching southern Angola from 2006 to 2007. The communes and musseques had sprung up in all the cities, specifically in southern Angola. After all the work done in those years, I returned in 2016 to Quanza Sul, where I explored communes and municipalities, photographing the doors of all the musseques, penetrating the deepest aspects of provincial life, trying to understand how families, given their large size in Africa, lived together in such small houses, usually built of adobe. Since I couldn't access the interior of the houses, I tried to understand that social phenomenon by portraying the doors of the houses, each of which seemed to have its own identity. In this way, I tried, in my imagination, to understand how families viewed themselves in those tiny houses.

Project Type

Photography

Date

2016

Local

Angola