nelly guambe

Born in Mozambique, 1987

Lives and works in Maputo, Mozambique

Nelly Guambe’s paintings explore and reflect upon women’s circumstances and emotions.Finding her inspiration in women whom she encounters in everyday life and work, as well as in herself, her art responds to a powerful urge to document and record their unknown state of being. With their hallmark penetrating eyes, her portraitsevoke a probing uncertainty, a certain restlessness that frequently leaves the viewer with questions rather than answers. The tension between positive and negative coexists in equal measure in each work – Guambe’s portraits perhaps shed light on the fundamental state of ambivalence in which many contemporary southern African women find themselves, amidst both opportunity and constraint.

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