Descripción de la Exposición
Dele Adeyemo had his first contact with the history of sugar in the Madeira Archipelago when he revisited the cartographic practices of European and African societies when researching for the creation of “The Cosmogony of (Racial) Capitalism” (2022).
After the research process carried out by Dele Adeyemo as part of his residency in Funchal, promoted by Capela Boa Viagem in collaboration with Sismógrafo, the artist will now present the installation Mother Liquor, curated by Mariana Pestana, at Sismógrafo.
Dele Adeyemo is a Scottish/Nigerian artist, architect and urban theorist (1985) based in London (UK) and Lagos (Nigeria, Gulf of Guinea). In his artistic practice, research and pedagogy, Adeyemo interrogates the processes of racialization incorporated in the creation of space. Through drawing, film and installation, her work employs a transdisciplinary Black aesthetic that explores embedded cultures of movement and circulation to celebrate the spatial imaginaries of everyday Black life in Africa and the diaspora. Dele's projects have been presented internationally, including the 13th and 18th Venice Architecture Biennales, the 5th Istanbul Design Biennale and the 2nd edition of the Lagos Biennale. In July 2022, he opened his first solo exhibition, Wey Dey Move: Imagining New Worlds Through Dance and Masquerade, at Het Nieuwe Instituut, in Rotterdam. From him he received the JAE Fellowship and Canadian Center for Architecture & Andrew Mellow Fellowship and a Het Nieuwe Instituut Research Fellowship. He is completing a CHASE-AHRC funded PhD entitled "Last Dark Continent" at the Center for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, and teaches Architecture at the Royal College of Art in London.
Mariana Pestana (1982) lives and works in Lisbon. She is an architect, curator and researcher. PhD in Architecture from Bartlett School of Architecture (2019), she creates cultural programs such as exhibitions, events and installations and among them The Future Starts Here (V&A, 2018) and Eco Visionaries (Maat, Royal Academy and Matadero, 2018-19) or the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial (2020-21). She is co-founder and director of the interdisciplinary studio The Decorators and Guest Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon.
Exposición. 19 nov de 2024 - 02 mar de 2025 / Museo Nacional del Prado / Madrid, España
Formación. 23 nov de 2024 - 29 nov de 2024 / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) / Madrid, España
