SUPER-HERÓIS - Banda Desenhada e Videojogos de África
LOCAL / PLACE: Centro Cultural Português em Maputo
CURADORIA / CURATED: MFF (Moçambique) / Comexposed (Zimbabwe)
Em anos recentes, tem-se assistido na Banda Desenhada e em videojogos produzidos no continente africano ao aparecimento de um conjunto de obras cujos protagonistas centrais são “super-heróis”. Esta tendência tem sido referenciada pelos media internacionais, analisada por comentadores e critícos especializados e merecido mesmo a atenção da comunidade académica (veja-se, para citar apenas um exemplo, o número da revista “Journal of African Cultural Studies” cujo dossier principal – “Afro-Superheroes: Prepossessing de Future” – lhes é inteiramente dedicado).
Esta exposição, produzida conjuntamente pelo MFF e pelo festival Comexposed (Zimbabwe), pretende dar a conhecer algumas das obras produzidas no continente (nomeadamente na Nigéria, Gana, África do Sul e Zimbabwe), os estúdios criativos e os autores que as desenvolveram e, sobretudo, contribuír para uma contextualização deste “fenómeno” através de uma reflexão sobre as características particulares e específicas destes “super-heróis” no quadro, mais amplo, da emergência de “novas narrativas” em África e de movimentos como o do “afro-futurismo”.
In recent years, we have seen the emergence of a number works in comics and videogames produced in the African continent in which “superheroes” characters take the central stage. This trend has been the object of ample references in international media publications and subject of analysis both by commentators and specialized critics as well by scholars in academia (see, just to cite one example, the dossier “Afro-Superheroes: Prepossessing de Future” published in a recent edition of the “Journal of African Cultural Studies”).
The aim of this exhibition, co-produced by MFF and Comexposed (Zimbabwe), is to showcase some of the more relevant works produced in the continent (namely in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa and Zimbabwe), the studios and artists who made them and, above all, to contribute to a better understanding of this “phenomenon” trough a contextualization of its origins, specific and unique characteristics and its ties and relations both to other ongoing developments engaged in creating “new narratives” from Africa as wll with cultural movements like “afro-futurism”.
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MFF was launched in 2016 as an open platform engaged in promoting creativity and innovation. Its main objective is to help Mozambican creators and innovators across all fields of activity (arts, culture, design, architecture, technology, etc.) to develop and present their projects, engage in fruitful trans-disciplinary debates and develop collaborations in order to establish an ecosystem that will allow them to expand their creative skills and to participate, through the exploration of networking opportunities, in the “global conversation” that is taking place within the “creative industries” sector.
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