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2MM: Reinata Sadimba & Ernesto Shikhani

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|   Reinata Sadimba  |  |   Ernesto Shikhani  |  

2MM: Reinata Sadimba & Ernesto Shikhani

2MM – Reinata Sadimba and Ernesto Shikhani marksTwenty years after the first exhibition that brought the works of these two Mozambican masters into dialogue at the Perve Gallery, reaffirming the timeliness, relevance, and international prominence of their careers.

The exhibition recovers and updates a dialogue that began at a time when Perve was already affirming the urgency of presenting artists deeply rooted in their cultural heritage, but capable of constructing contemporary languages with international validity and impact. Just as then,2MMIt affirms an Africa that reinvents itself based on its own references, rejecting stereotypes and imposed models, and proposing an interpretation of modernity constructed from multiple peripheries, in a gesture of affirmation of artistic and cultural freedom.

Reinata Sadimba, an unavoidable reference in contemporary African ceramics, is presented at a moment of strong international recognition, with her work highlighted in the exhibition.The power of my hands, at SESC Pompeia, in São Paulo, after having held a solo exhibition at Art Dubai, one of the most important global platforms for contemporary art. Her practice, transcending the Makonde tradition and placing the experience of women at the forefront, transforms ceramics into a territory of narrative, memory, body, motherhood and resistance, affirming a language that is simultaneously ancestral and radically contemporary, where creation asserts itself as a space of autonomy and freedom.

Ernesto Shikhani, a central figure in Mozambican painting, has also consolidated unparalleled international recognition over the last two decades. Following his inaugural dialogue with Reinata at Perve, in 2018 he became the first Mozambican artist permanently residing in the country to participate in the prestigious Spotlight section at Frieze Masters in London, one of the world's most important art fairs. His work, marked by a strong symbolic, spiritual, and political dimension, articulates tradition, knowledge, identity, and social critique, affirming a painting where ancestral memory and reflection on African modernity intersect as an exercise in critical freedom and affirmation of thought.

Available works by Ernesto Shikhani

Available works by Reinata Sadimba

2MM
Reinata Sadimba and Ernesto Shikhani

From March 17th to April 25th, 2026

Tuesday to Saturday from 2 PM to 8 PM

House of Liberty - Mario Cesariny

Rua das Escolas Gerais, n.º 13, Lisbon

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