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The Healing Touch

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|   Reinata Sadimba  |  

The Healing Touch

Casa da Liberdade - Mário Cesariny presents "Reinata Sadimba - The Healing Touch", a solo exhibition by the renowned Mozambican artist Reinata Sadimba, curated by Carlos Cabral Nunes, on display from September 10 to October 24, 2026.

Developed from the concept The Healing Touch Series originally conceived during the sculptor's artistic residency with Perve Galeria in 2023, the exhibition takes the form of an immersive installation with a strong visual and conceptual impact. The project has since been presented on important international stages, namely at ARCOlisboa, 1-54 London, AKAA Paris and Art Dubai, and now acquires a new configuration at Casa da Liberdade – Mário Cesariny.

Reinata Sadimba's works stem from the artist's deep connection to the Makonde cultural heritage, where the representation of the human figure historically takes on a ritual, symbolic, and shamanic dimension, associated with processes of healing, protection, and regeneration. In this context, each installation can be understood as a contemporary altar, bringing together sculptures and objects that evoke different dimensions of human experience and establish a space for reflection, contemplation, and transformation.

Throughout her career, Reinata Sadimba has developed a unique sculptural language, deeply rooted in the Makonde tradition and, simultaneously, marked by extraordinary creative freedom. Her figures, often hybrid and highly expressive, confront the viewer with social, existential, and collective questions, challenging established perceptions of reality and the human condition.

In the exhibition the therapeutic and transformative dimension of artistic creation takes on particular relevance. Art emerges as a possibility for healing and regeneration, not as a definitive answer, but as a space for confrontation, elaboration, and change. The works address tensions between suffering and overcoming, fragility and resistance, memory and future, revealing a sculptural practice in which the artistic gesture also becomes a gesture of care.

This presentation in Lisbon is of particular significance, constituting a unique opportunity to contemplate the depth and relevance of the work of one of the most important voices in contemporary African sculpture. The exhibition precedes Reinata Sadimba's presence at the prestigious international African Art Fair, 1-54 London, in October 2026, as well as its prominence in the curatorial project that Paula Nascimento will present at the 17th Sharjah Biennial in 2027.

More than a solo exhibition,"The Healing Touch" proposes an immersive experience in an artistic universe where tradition and contemporaneity meet, and where sculpture asserts itself as an instrument of reflection, questioning, and transformation. At Casa da Liberdade – Mário Cesariny, Reinata Sadimba's work reveals the telluric and universal force of her language, celebrating art's capacity to touch, transform, and build bridges between cultures, experiences, and different ways of understanding and inhabiting the world.

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