The exhibition "Para pendurar a palavra Gravidade" is promoted by Camões - Centro Cultural Português (CCP) in Luanda, in partnership with the gallery This Is Not a White Cube, and will be on display until May 26, 2022, at Camões – CCP Luanda.
The initiative is part of the commemorations of the World Portuguese Language Day, which is celebrated on 5 May, the day established in 2019, at the UNESCO General Conference.
"A visual stimulus by Jordi Burch's images that challenge the notions of internal balance and order, accompanied or invaded by the drawing of Ondjaki's words. A dance for two, where the presence of the image is symbiotically linked to poetry in Portuguese, thus celebrating a language that unites more than 260 million people around the world", describes a Camões press release.
Portuguese is the official language of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe and Timor-Leste.
Ondjaki was born in Luanda in 1977. He has a degree in Sociology and a PhD in African Studies, prose writer and poet, and also writes for cinema, being a member of the Angolan Writers' Union.
He received the Sagrada Esperança awards (Angola, 2004); Short story – APE (Portugal, 2007); FNLIJ (Brazil, 2010& 2014); Juvenile JABUTI (Brazil, 2010); José Saramago Prize (Portugal, 2013) and Littérature-Monde Prize (France, 2016) with the book "Os Transparentes". It is translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, English, Serbian and Swedish.
Jordi Burch was born in Barcelona in 1979 and moved to Portugal in 1981. He studied photography at Ar.Co– Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual, in Lisbon, and in 2008 moved between São Paulo and Lisbon.
Among his most recent activities are the exhibitions "Neighbourhood" at the Venice Architecture Biennale and Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon), "Durações do rasto" at Fundação Iberê Camargo, Brazil, "Furo" at Janaina Torres Galeria in São Paulo and "Como coisa real por fora, como coisa real por dentro" at the Salgadeiras gallery in Lisbon. In 2018 he published the book "Como está o início depois do fim?" by Tinta da China Publishing.
