Ilídio Candja Candja

Rising above turbulent, expressive seas awash with vibrant hues of yellow, red, green, and black, among others — evocative of the Mozambican Flag of Independence — African masks, sacred power objects, maps, and figures associated with wayfinding, ceremony, and celebration pair with various apparatuses historically employed to assert physical and psychological dominion, suggesting a complex interplay between tradition and a desire for progress. These symbols, inalienable from vast histories across the African continent, coalesce into unpredictable, rippling scales that delicately balance one another. Within these cosmic systems lie the blueprints for utopias envisioned through the eyes of this Mozambican futurist, Ilídio Candja Candja.