Galeria Zé dos Bois receives Catarina Alves Costa, director of the documentary “Margot”, about the ethnologist Margot Dias, who, between 1958 and 1961, took part in four ethnographic missions to the extreme north of Mozambique. During this period, Margot Dias filmed and recorded hundreds of minutes, unique visual and sound records of Makonde culture. In ‘Margot’, Catarina Alves Costa went to meet the Makonde who live today in the outskirts of Maputo city.
This talk is part of the parallel program of the exhibition Nanquim preto sobre fundo branco [‘Black ink on white background’] by João Ayres, where, alongside a set of paintings and drawings produced between 1947 and 1959 in Mozambique, a selection of Makonde statuary is presented – part of the private collection started by Frederico Ayres – which recreates folkloric, traditional and cultural references to the time, running through the whole body of work on display.
