AfricanColours - “Art And Social Justice” - International Conference In Durban

Angola Sun 07-02-2010

“Art And Social Justice” - International Conference In Durban
By Simao Souindoula/Historian and Art Critic

Durban University of technology and association - art for Humanity International conference presents 'Art and Social Justice' in Durban, S. Africa on the 21-24 March 2010.

Communication

“Angola. Aftermath of the war, economic liberalization and plastic artists call to a social justice dynamic”

Report

For more than forty years, this country has known a succession, quite contrasting, of historic process; an evolution of the old framework which was rather colonialist, dominating and marginalizing, a post independence state and collectivist tendencies and an implementation of new market economy since the end of the 80s.

The republic of Angola drags in this way, a set of strong social inequalities.

The whole society is invariably conscious of the scale and the complexity of these dissimilarities. Like other national sectors, many artists of all fields such as musicians, plastic artists, film makers, playwrights and so on, they have rightly drawn the public attention to that reality through their works.

And that is the case of plastic artists like painters, sculptors, ceramists and photographers who had no hesitation.
They expressed it in an efficient way during exhibition related to meetings like the Biennale of the Ensarte* or the Coopearte.

Among topics shown through paintings, wood, iron and brass carvings, clay mountains or digital stands, we notice a best protection of underprivileged childhood, larger promotion of rural women, courageous examination of urban street vendors situations, help to landmines victims, assistance to war refugees, fight against malnutrition, building of decent accommodations, continuation of teaching and basic education efforts in favour for underprivileged level, fight against main endemic, pandemic and epidemic diseases and so on.

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