https://rauljorgegourgel.com Raul Jorge Gourgel Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:39:02 +0000 https://rauljorgegourgel.com en https://rauljorgegourgel.com/Home Thu, 14 Mar 2019 12:43:14 +0000 Raul Jorge Gourgel https://rauljorgegourgel.com/Home window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-Y81WTNFZ24'); An Obstinate Course of MemoryThe SADC* Biennale An Ostrich Learns to Fly &nbsp; The Ghost of Neto O Chefe Está a Falar Rooi Gevaar Cessna over Ebo Ratel over the Hill The Sun Rose in the Third Region Study of a Flag https://rauljorgegourgel.com/An-Obstinate-Course-of-Memory Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:29:10 +0000 Raul Jorge Gourgel https://rauljorgegourgel.com/An-Obstinate-Course-of-Memory An Obstinate Course of Memory, 2025 window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-Y81WTNFZ24'); installation:glass mosaics on plywood, two-channel video, sound, resin cast sculpture, Namib desert Sand, 200 Akz coin, steel soundscape composed and recorded by Vuyo Tshwele <img width="7006" height="4671" width_o="7006" height_o="4671" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/198669a5b255c9dc398d0ece20b69ca6aeb565723e9ef0a0acfe5120c60bfc7f/277A0053.jpg" data-mid="241375079" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/198669a5b255c9dc398d0ece20b69ca6aeb565723e9ef0a0acfe5120c60bfc7f/277A0053.jpg" /> <img width="7023" height="4681" width_o="7023" height_o="4681" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c389f3babb6cd23b8f6f938a02bc8ae2327543fb83ecc68d2c40020615a631fb/277A0056.jpg" data-mid="241375154" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c389f3babb6cd23b8f6f938a02bc8ae2327543fb83ecc68d2c40020615a631fb/277A0056.jpg" /><img width="7200" height="4800" width_o="7200" height_o="4800" 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src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0fbe1eef42a52839c692e438c6ef48980b99700d7c49a08312eb48a07eca7676/277A0078.jpg" /> installation images above: courtesy of Brook-lynn Norkie <img width="5712" height="4284" width_o="5712" height_o="4284" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fde321b4e886d87c7139acf1ce0b16cfc055b94757bd46de1e8f7f5e18146f79/IMG_8099.jpeg" data-mid="241403461" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fde321b4e886d87c7139acf1ce0b16cfc055b94757bd46de1e8f7f5e18146f79/IMG_8099.jpeg" /><img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0a183502006bb816a681a7afb91a7ba88d066b57d8b9d9899a0229f6d460a78/IMG_8100.jpeg" data-mid="241403462" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a0a183502006bb816a681a7afb91a7ba88d066b57d8b9d9899a0229f6d460a78/IMG_8100.jpeg" /><img width="5712" height="4284" width_o="5712" height_o="4284" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5af0c5b678f3c19afbeaae4586f8c35abaea8c0735189e6a6428d8473ca94400/IMG_8103.jpeg" data-mid="241403464" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5af0c5b678f3c19afbeaae4586f8c35abaea8c0735189e6a6428d8473ca94400/IMG_8103.jpeg" /><img width="4233" height="3024" width_o="4233" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8210b12a336a665b5792b79d321543f325297201a7ac55988f86aab9bd417ce5/IMG_8167-2.jpeg" data-mid="241814617" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8210b12a336a665b5792b79d321543f325297201a7ac55988f86aab9bd417ce5/IMG_8167-2.jpeg" /> read&nbsp;full length text An Obstinate Course of Memory explores how remembrance endures and sustains itself beyond authoritarian streams of memory. it traces the informal memorialization of the 5th of January 1993 massacre in Namibe, Angola – a moment, like many others in the 27-year conflict between the ruling MPLA and UNITA, relegated to the margins of public memory. the 2002 ceasefire brought no transitional justice or public reckoning with the human cost of the war. instead, a mutual amnesty was declared, effectively silencing inquiry. in the years since, collective memory has been abstracted, reconfigured into iconography managed by the ruling elite. while CIVICOP – National Commission of Reconciliation in Memory of the Victims of the Political Conflicts – was established after a 17-year delay, its propagandist aims and embodied continuation of the State’s choreography of control soon became apparent. drawing from Edouard Glissant’s concept of the Nonhistory (Glissant, 1989), An Obstinate Course of Memory embodies a counter-memorial practice, positioning itself against the totalizing frameworks of History (capital H) inherited from colonial epistemologies and weaponized by the postcolonial state. materializing through an installation composing glass mosaics, Namib desert sand, sculpture, a 2022 commemorative-edition 200 Kwanza coin and moving image, the work functions as an anti-monument honoring the 5th of January and its remembrance. it investigates the verbal, meta and material languages of memory in Angola. Mosaics in Socialist Realist style, for instance, have served as a medium for depicting quasi-mythical scenes of history – as seen on the plinth of Independence Plaza or the archway to the Military History Museum. by appropriating this lexicon, the project seeks to map remembrance of the event, materially and relationally subverting the media used to control History. it transforms relevant localities into spaces of contemplation, using cartographic and symbolic pairings to trace memory's persistence. the desert biome becomes an instrumental space of investigation in An Obstinate Course of Memory, forming an allegory, through its aridity, of the condition to which Nonhistories in contemporary Angola are subjected. the moving image component, while investigating social media’s role in counter-remembrance, opens a visual corridor into the desertic landscape of Tombwa. furthermore, special attention is paid to the Onymacris Bicolor beetle, native to the Namib Desert, whose survival strategy – fog basking – serves as a biomimetic metaphor for memory’s ingenuity under arid conditions. this tactic mirrors how memory adapts and endures even in inhospitable environments. the project illuminates channels such as procession, repetition, and social media as alternative yet vital forms of memorialization – persisting where historiography refuses to recollect. https://rauljorgegourgel.com/The-SADC-Biennale Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:39:02 +0000 Raul Jorge Gourgel https://rauljorgegourgel.com/The-SADC-Biennale The SADC* Biennale, 2025-ongoing window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-Y81WTNFZ24'); hyphothesised and curated in collaboration with Rory Tsapayi <img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f89d4ea1af3f019e55ec7731bbbf8dd258f462984b131d0d69f3f6809d6e20b/IMG_4585.jpeg" data-mid="241399713" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f89d4ea1af3f019e55ec7731bbbf8dd258f462984b131d0d69f3f6809d6e20b/IMG_4585.jpeg" /><img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c5c847134c2936b1898efee6e0c85a753cfb7cad905351f3de77ae3d3948585f/IMG_4461.jpeg" data-mid="241429280" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c5c847134c2936b1898efee6e0c85a753cfb7cad905351f3de77ae3d3948585f/IMG_4461.jpeg" /><img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d7d2c3df8ecb3b6f4a8b8128ab1435a23b2f1832681d301b8834856b4c0f18cc/IMG_4629.jpeg" data-mid="241399714" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d7d2c3df8ecb3b6f4a8b8128ab1435a23b2f1832681d301b8834856b4c0f18cc/IMG_4629.jpeg" /><img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5aad2191973ce60bbd1fa0f424996d29cc3d39f208019b4cc984ed9c95961b1d/IMG_4595.jpeg" data-mid="241429244" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5aad2191973ce60bbd1fa0f424996d29cc3d39f208019b4cc984ed9c95961b1d/IMG_4595.jpeg" /><img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/025d59cb71eee95c0054177ec5a8e771e58cd422885dc075a4fe81b8961d0e48/IMG_4567.jpeg" data-mid="241399715" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/025d59cb71eee95c0054177ec5a8e771e58cd422885dc075a4fe81b8961d0e48/IMG_4567.jpeg" /> <img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b07b99edf0e013cfb186386e664daeabad281b2244e241be12f3a6576aa4c344/IMG_4466.jpeg" data-mid="241429288" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b07b99edf0e013cfb186386e664daeabad281b2244e241be12f3a6576aa4c344/IMG_4466.jpeg" /> <img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b046abf7e5668e92595826028c38f5c25c2daf8e223ebc85a82904f4550a110b/IMG_4559.jpeg" data-mid="241399716" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b046abf7e5668e92595826028c38f5c25c2daf8e223ebc85a82904f4550a110b/IMG_4559.jpeg" /> <img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac7be43f96ef135a4484d58fceb3cf8a79740f932ad4bc6e8578aa1406595c79/IMG_4612.jpeg" data-mid="241429526" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ac7be43f96ef135a4484d58fceb3cf8a79740f932ad4bc6e8578aa1406595c79/IMG_4612.jpeg" /> the first edition of the Biennale* includes: Hélio Buite + Henrique J. Paris TBP Collective - LegakwanaLeo Makgekgenene, Kim Karabo Makin, Thebe Phetogo, Thero Makepe, Rrangwane Pacifique Kihanguila (Bü Kihang) Lorraine Kalassa Bulelwa Kunene MOCHA-O-CHELE - Matty Monethi, Puseletso Masemene, Matseliso Motsoane,&nbsp;Katleho Habi,&nbsp;Lineo Segoete Mona Eshraghi Hakimi Ana Machava + Malik Chiconela Santana Buhlebenkosi Pauline Ndhlovu &nbsp; Sana Ginwalla (Everyday Lusaka) Thando Mlambo (Dark Art Matter(s)) the SA*DC Biennale is a hypothetical fiction, a satirical misconception, and a subversive provocation. both a parody of and a good-faith engagement with the defining structures of the biennial form and our regional bloc of nation-states, the SADC Biennale* is a conceptual, anti-establishment, and experimental retort. Raul Jorge Gourgel and Rory Tsapayi invited individual cultural workers and creative collectives to ‘represent’ eleven different countries with ‘national pavilions’ that, by design, unsettle nationalistic ideologies, arbitrary borders, and the logic of the state. these are housed in the SAD*C Giardini, a diorama of the imagined exhibition complex that hosts the Biennale*. &nbsp;each pavilion hosts an exhibition of its own, curated under the theme of Towards a Common Relic. present at this first edition of the Biennale* under the theme of Towards a Common Relic are: Angola*, Botswana*, Congo-Brazzaville*, DRC*, Eswatini*, Lesotho*, Malawi*, Mozambique*, Namibia*, Zambia*, and Zimbabwe*. the project critiques two institutions founded roughly a century apart. first: the biennial, and especially La Biennale de Venezia (est. 1895) which is a defining form for ‘global’ contemporary art and a vessel for nationalistic soft power. second: SADC, the Southern African Development Community (est. 1992), a ‘postcolonial’ and dysfunctional grouping of nations whose borders are the direct inheritance of the nineteenth century Scramble for Africa. the S*ADC Biennale takes the Giardini as a focal point, appropriating the oldest and most prestigious site of La Biennale de Venezia. founded at the outset of the long-twentieth century, the Giardini’s evolution runs in tandem with the geopolitics of the age. in 1907, King Leopold II’s Belgium premiered the first national pavilion, soon followed by the imperial powers of Great Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Russia. today the gardens host 29 permanent national pavilions, with Egypt as the sole African nation onsite and the Global South scarcely represented. at the Arsenale, only South Africa has a dedicated venue, while the remaining 52 African states are resigned to nomadic and peripheral existences if they can afford to participate. in Venice, occidental hierarchies and national disparities are as much on exhibition as the art itself. founded in 1992, the SADC was preceded by the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC), meant as the economic counterpart of the Frontline States which formed in 1975 as a communion of newly independent nations (Angola, Botswana, Lesotho and Mozambique) with the common goal of annihilating white minority rule in southern Africa. In 1980, as Rhodesia died and sovereign Zimbabwe was born, the coalition expanded to include all ‘genuinely independent states’ in the region. the later SADCC was created to facilitate economic cooperation amid the ‘3D’ threats of drought, debt, and destabilisation. after its first democratic elections of 1994, South Africa joined the bloc which now contains sixteen member states. inheriting the economic infrastructure of the apartheid regime, SA remains the region’s largest economy and a xenophobic and exceptionalist island of development in a sea of scarcity. it is for these reasons and their extension in the contemporary art system that South Africa will not be represented in this inaugural edition of the Biennale*. the SADC’s neoliberal agenda and maintenance of the political status quo eclipse its capacity to facilitate sociocultural development in the region. turning the bloc’s motto of “Towards a Common Future” on its head, Gourgel and Tsapayi’s theme of Towards a Common Relic proposes an imagination of regional development outside of colonial and modernist frameworks. Subbing “resources” for “relics” as a unit of a non-linear development, it is an invitation to think through regional commonality and difference with an eye on what survives. this is not a call for a pre-colonial romanticism, but rather for an anti-colonial engagement with the fraught history and present of the region, and an assertion that its future is defined as much by capital flows as by cultural consciousness. the SAD*C Biennale reimagines how art, cultural identities, and regional cooperation could and could not intersect to both acknowledge, resist and transform nationalisms. it signals a shift towards self- determined cultural expression without and beyond borders. https://rauljorgegourgel.com/An-Ostrich-Learns-to-Fly Sat, 24 Jun 2023 18:18:44 +0000 Raul Jorge Gourgel https://rauljorgegourgel.com/An-Ostrich-Learns-to-Fly An Ostrich Learns to Fly, 2023 window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-Y81WTNFZ24'); <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/baffb810e6ff08323add599985c5b162232ff0b6bf6379e1e5f33fa21e8f79ce/IMG_2256.JPG" data-mid="183149772" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/baffb810e6ff08323add599985c5b162232ff0b6bf6379e1e5f33fa21e8f79ce/IMG_2256.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/320d12d73c56e57c6a3da36b9e84f8be6831105c49e5625c1806c5fb727aaa6d/IMG_2305-2.JPG" data-mid="183693182" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/320d12d73c56e57c6a3da36b9e84f8be6831105c49e5625c1806c5fb727aaa6d/IMG_2305-2.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0d4928c1ff38bfeedbff7a85e31fd66cefdeeb463121097ec26b90a62bf57e2/IMG_2280.JPG" data-mid="183149860" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f0d4928c1ff38bfeedbff7a85e31fd66cefdeeb463121097ec26b90a62bf57e2/IMG_2280.JPG" /><img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9aaa85784ab96a6d2be985fa2036ba4a5dc47e0df957ca178e2f5221b328a2d3/IMG_2241-2.JPG" data-mid="183693096" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9aaa85784ab96a6d2be985fa2036ba4a5dc47e0df957ca178e2f5221b328a2d3/IMG_2241-2.JPG" /> An Ostrich Learns to Fly, 2023 ceremonial installation:&nbsp;video projection on fabric, wooden table, anointing oil, glass bowl, velvet, paraffin wax candles, glass candle holders <img width="2924" height="986" width_o="2924" height_o="986" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ff5ce93c25730b4bb4bcdc1bc69bf23ac533eaabfeee22379073bb6a0962bda0/Screenshot-2023-06-29-at-17.08.04.png" data-mid="183691884" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ff5ce93c25730b4bb4bcdc1bc69bf23ac533eaabfeee22379073bb6a0962bda0/Screenshot-2023-06-29-at-17.08.04.png" /> An Ostrich Learns to Fly video stills <img width="3840" height="5760" width_o="3840" height_o="5760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/21cf055e15211bb9a18f2f7de3502de99c5f5a6b6e41a710dd5a7738889f75c6/1N0B3326.jpg" data-mid="183675109" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/21cf055e15211bb9a18f2f7de3502de99c5f5a6b6e41a710dd5a7738889f75c6/1N0B3326.jpg" /><img width="3840" height="5760" width_o="3840" height_o="5760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d2666871db79b87a2db0a63f276282b3f05addfdf5ec7ae76a703601e62e485a/1N0B3337.jpg" data-mid="183675115" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d2666871db79b87a2db0a63f276282b3f05addfdf5ec7ae76a703601e62e485a/1N0B3337.jpg" />Umbigo, 2023 ostrich leather, cows leather, brass eyelets, waxed thread <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/70f0f14ad21f7d75cb1e559a8ce27da7b411a149a6391cfe6a8d6a24da841c3f/1N0B3276.jpg" data-mid="183675055" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/70f0f14ad21f7d75cb1e559a8ce27da7b411a149a6391cfe6a8d6a24da841c3f/1N0B3276.jpg" />The Flag, 2023 chiffon, bull denim <img width="3840" height="5760" width_o="3840" height_o="5760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/323a8d3ffcd62d081a883d72bce1ebae243762d57b1f4309e90ed1733f4ee2f1/1N0B3295.jpg" data-mid="183675084" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/323a8d3ffcd62d081a883d72bce1ebae243762d57b1f4309e90ed1733f4ee2f1/1N0B3295.jpg" />white polyester gloves worn during performance An Ostrich Learns to Fly looks at parade Flag belts. wearing this, the body becomes the Flag, and the self, in consequence, the Nation. the relationship between the two is explored through this corporeal tension. looking at Patria as an imagined space removed from the walkable Land, whose pursuit is eternal and unrealized, this work processes the conflation of the self to the phenomenon of nationhood. it looks at the manifestation of national identification as a form of method-acting, paying close attention and embodying the inevitable breaks of character pertinent to a choreographed existence. the conception of Angolanity is examined though its rootedness in the nation’s reactionary post-independence uni-Partisanship – and its subsequent transition to a dominant-party system – where the development of the New Man was in mutual entanglement with the nation’s longevous history of colonial assimilationism in tandem with its 27-year-long conflict backdropped by the Cold War. An Ostrich Learns to Fly is interested in the meeting point of fabrication and fidelity. in it, an ontology of eternal liminality emerges where the sacred and the natural are in constant odds with each other. in this performance, as the body personifies an uncanny movement and existence, one’s identity becomes fused and obliged to the unattainable. an act of mourning the self unfolds. https://rauljorgegourgel.com/Ghost-of-Neto Mon, 15 Feb 2021 13:16:41 +0000 Raul Jorge Gourgel https://rauljorgegourgel.com/Ghost-of-Neto The Ghost of Neto, 2023 window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-Y81WTNFZ24'); bronze, plywood, velvet, wool padding <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66d218ff95ec89ec672bc405103098b281423d33b6d698cfe70eb0ff067054a3/IMG_3573.jpeg" data-mid="183147634" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66d218ff95ec89ec672bc405103098b281423d33b6d698cfe70eb0ff067054a3/IMG_3573.jpeg" /><img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4496c699d0d5216f23fe1b040b34c77d9725986c5ea80da1bf59d3a4446f722/IMG_3581.jpeg" data-mid="183147633" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c4496c699d0d5216f23fe1b040b34c77d9725986c5ea80da1bf59d3a4446f722/IMG_3581.jpeg" /><img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d7f7bdb4b08b45ae58bec00f9c74104626e5d83cdc906124a7f2e22fe15f554/IMG_3611.jpeg" data-mid="183147627" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5d7f7bdb4b08b45ae58bec00f9c74104626e5d83cdc906124a7f2e22fe15f554/IMG_3611.jpeg" /><img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a6594d78866fced3355de5c9fc273565a4aad2578fbd8e8f528952a9ec22aaed/IMG_3612.jpeg" data-mid="183147626" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a6594d78866fced3355de5c9fc273565a4aad2578fbd8e8f528952a9ec22aaed/IMG_3612.jpeg" /><img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5a8d528d3242d1a4a234d7a3c2fa6cc1fc8c0d9574d6e1090b9b7d01d2d5985/IMG_3708.jpeg" data-mid="183147624" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5a8d528d3242d1a4a234d7a3c2fa6cc1fc8c0d9574d6e1090b9b7d01d2d5985/IMG_3708.jpeg" /><img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e7fd8782b597afd8a44daf8cf14f4210d2f528e931a96433eddc619bb4b7d1f6/IMG_3667.jpeg" data-mid="183147625" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e7fd8782b597afd8a44daf8cf14f4210d2f528e931a96433eddc619bb4b7d1f6/IMG_3667.jpeg" /><img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4aae94cc7ac4d1f60db4f0210e25a5b163b5706c0564c4cbbf48d051a6239f8/IMG_3723.jpeg" data-mid="183147623" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e4aae94cc7ac4d1f60db4f0210e25a5b163b5706c0564c4cbbf48d051a6239f8/IMG_3723.jpeg" /> in late 2022, the glasses of one of the busts of Agostinho Neto, in Gabela, Kwanza Sul, were cut off. they were initially sold for Akz300 ($0,69*) – the interviewed suspect claiming unawareness of the value of the bronze glasses. (see video) through the observation of this event, this installation studies the transformation of the figure of the icon throughout history– from the liberation struggle into the contemporary–, its sancification and incongruence with material reality. it is henceforth a reference to his recurrent apparition in internet meme culture in the last couple of years. through close observation of the busts of Neto and through its absence in this piece, this work is an inquisition on material value, along with one of the divination of the figure built around Neto and the repressive regime he pioneered. was this defacing of leader an act of insurgence or merely refective of the urgency in the material for those living under the regime Neto drew the blueprint for? *exchange rate from around the time of the incident https://rauljorgegourgel.com/O-Chefe-Esta-a-Falar Tue, 04 Jul 2023 13:30:16 +0000 Raul Jorge Gourgel https://rauljorgegourgel.com/O-Chefe-Esta-a-Falar O Chefe Está a Falar, 2023 window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-Y81WTNFZ24'); cnc cut plywood treated through burning and varnish staining; dowel rod and wood detailing spray painted in gold and burnt, chiffon, fringe, plastic rope <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ad51c35a569925fcd8ecd51c4835ea118065ba559eb88714ab89dee7d1792a1/IMG_4051.JPG" data-mid="184409312" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ad51c35a569925fcd8ecd51c4835ea118065ba559eb88714ab89dee7d1792a1/IMG_4051.JPG" /> <img width="2997" height="3996" width_o="2997" height_o="3996" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca62335b0ba2c3874c3ea65003de899a87728af904081a7c82721ef1a7938d42/IMG_4065.JPG" data-mid="184409311" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca62335b0ba2c3874c3ea65003de899a87728af904081a7c82721ef1a7938d42/IMG_4065.JPG" /><img width="2779" height="3705" width_o="2779" height_o="3705" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a6658aeeda14733c68e9e5ce5a4e7144539c80210700a4def48ed25d635fc8e/IMG_4103.JPG" data-mid="184409305" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a6658aeeda14733c68e9e5ce5a4e7144539c80210700a4def48ed25d635fc8e/IMG_4103.JPG" /><img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c7d74af03174f352fe6e9fa5e7e544b0982bef6ba042dc4d9df1830704f9803/IMG_4098.JPG" data-mid="184409306" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0c7d74af03174f352fe6e9fa5e7e544b0982bef6ba042dc4d9df1830704f9803/IMG_4098.JPG" /><img width="2907" height="3876" width_o="2907" height_o="3876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2cf3380636c1936c991a939c7bd1fd6e299ab2cc533b163a4e4f647b10783e70/IMG_4075.JPG" data-mid="184409310" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2cf3380636c1936c991a939c7bd1fd6e299ab2cc533b163a4e4f647b10783e70/IMG_4075.JPG" /><img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f524eaca62bb8041682293bec211374eb38b3dd92f08fadf168ea6f4221ef619/IMG_4079.JPG" data-mid="184409309" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f524eaca62bb8041682293bec211374eb38b3dd92f08fadf168ea6f4221ef619/IMG_4079.JPG" /><img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/85ed15f731065de7fcd1fe9818a3041d262e40727264ebecba661277ab06ea27/IMG_4082.JPG" data-mid="184409308" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/85ed15f731065de7fcd1fe9818a3041d262e40727264ebecba661277ab06ea27/IMG_4082.JPG" /><img width="2931" height="3908" width_o="2931" height_o="3908" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1e0464707e8f2f35fec86c10fc5c966a5e250bd5b50723fe67798dc99a2ac32/IMG_4083.JPG" data-mid="184409307" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a1e0464707e8f2f35fec86c10fc5c966a5e250bd5b50723fe67798dc99a2ac32/IMG_4083.JPG" /><img width="2966" height="3955" width_o="2966" height_o="3955" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2ccf94e39e06d4f9a4e4e2e717265b6ec2f19fff0056cbb3d1d25197ea74f3d/IMG_4117.JPG" data-mid="184409304" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e2ccf94e39e06d4f9a4e4e2e717265b6ec2f19fff0056cbb3d1d25197ea74f3d/IMG_4117.JPG" /><img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/520d520f1d6d3b432fb54ac73256330acc205e9f439a29cda9487317d4b45bd3/IMG_4136.JPG" data-mid="184409302" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/520d520f1d6d3b432fb54ac73256330acc205e9f439a29cda9487317d4b45bd3/IMG_4136.JPG" /><img width="2856" height="3808" width_o="2856" height_o="3808" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b605353f2aabac7e06a2b6a7e1269b322eef91c6fda82ac1e4983b15f3a04737/IMG_4122.JPG" data-mid="184409303" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b605353f2aabac7e06a2b6a7e1269b322eef91c6fda82ac1e4983b15f3a04737/IMG_4122.JPG" /> <img width="960" height="640" width_o="960" height_o="640" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3fedd5fc0abb54f7036e04c5ba17c70d8c55dc401cccbd43cb1cc6c94a32c58a/IMG_3195-3.JPG" data-mid="184409536" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/3fedd5fc0abb54f7036e04c5ba17c70d8c55dc401cccbd43cb1cc6c94a32c58a/IMG_3195-3.JPG" /> João Lourenço addessing the Nation&nbsp; a deconstructed replica of a speech podium – originally with a screen – used by the MPLA, this work studies the means and actualization of dissemination of party’s propaganda. through the eternalisation of the moment of the speech, space is allowed for such instance to be dissected as instigative of adoration, cultuation and inculcation – assimilating to codes particular to religiousity. examining the notion of Patria as a place removed from the walkable land and processing the ritualistic effort of bridging between the two, O Chefe Está a Falar draws the line between political speech-giving in an authoritarian totalising system to the dissemination of the gospel and adoration of the divine.&nbsp; https://rauljorgegourgel.com/Rooi-Gevaar Fri, 30 Jun 2023 12:39:39 +0000 Raul Jorge Gourgel https://rauljorgegourgel.com/Rooi-Gevaar Rooi Gevaar, 2022 window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-Y81WTNFZ24'); plaster of paris, enamel, spray paint <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f4fbfb0808fa788a68a53961c830fbb4c80cb3e17178f28b1e21d0b5380b48f5/1N0B3202.jpg" data-mid="183786270" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f4fbfb0808fa788a68a53961c830fbb4c80cb3e17178f28b1e21d0b5380b48f5/1N0B3202.jpg" /> <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/179398801cf5fa99077fdd7ee7dba34934b101ce7c72e9c22993c2dbe9c8f4e5/1N0B3182-2.jpg" data-mid="183786264" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/179398801cf5fa99077fdd7ee7dba34934b101ce7c72e9c22993c2dbe9c8f4e5/1N0B3182-2.jpg" /><img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b007af42c1d129b154ae23eb1dbb3629cc059870319011402aff44da8d39c151/1N0B3206.jpg" data-mid="183786271" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b007af42c1d129b154ae23eb1dbb3629cc059870319011402aff44da8d39c151/1N0B3206.jpg" /><img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45945a8e6ec5627b4a4bed5aa8b4bd31ff79e926dcd1a5ee37e226d3b23e83e4/1N0B3186.jpg" data-mid="183786265" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/45945a8e6ec5627b4a4bed5aa8b4bd31ff79e926dcd1a5ee37e226d3b23e83e4/1N0B3186.jpg" /><img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a91ca7dc5d3136aa94877de3b2f82e16c9d6b113175a316d6358e7a5ace61048/1N0B3188.jpg" data-mid="183786267" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a91ca7dc5d3136aa94877de3b2f82e16c9d6b113175a316d6358e7a5ace61048/1N0B3188.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="5760" width_o="3840" height_o="5760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/811b9ea38ed1a2cc70d867fac248ff2d11fd89483d9deab7103a686e797c9bca/1N0B3194.jpg" data-mid="183786269" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/811b9ea38ed1a2cc70d867fac248ff2d11fd89483d9deab7103a686e797c9bca/1N0B3194.jpg" /> <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad403f221ef8778a237729736bb33aec75b4690e404ecbc51b4232272f830fcb/1N0B3165.jpg" data-mid="184104382" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ad403f221ef8778a237729736bb33aec75b4690e404ecbc51b4232272f830fcb/1N0B3165.jpg" /> “the SADF troops pertaining to Operation Savannah had many tactics to avoid leaving a trace. one of them was stripping all cans in ration packs of labels and, in place, painting and colour coding them” https://rauljorgegourgel.com/Cessna-over-Ebo Fri, 30 Jun 2023 14:13:41 +0000 Raul Jorge Gourgel https://rauljorgegourgel.com/Cessna-over-Ebo Cessna over Ebo, 2022 window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-Y81WTNFZ24'); <img width="3841" height="2881" width_o="3841" height_o="2881" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/76248e6c8c7fe5693752edb0dc9bae0ac63fd7028ac355e41dca01e78ee68ba1/IMG_4031.jpg" data-mid="184115752" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/76248e6c8c7fe5693752edb0dc9bae0ac63fd7028ac355e41dca01e78ee68ba1/IMG_4031.jpg" /> Cessna over Ebo I, 2022 lithographic snake slip on archival footage phototransfer;&nbsp; stone lithography on munken <img width="3883" height="2912" width_o="3883" height_o="2912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d5506e55c3bb46c0e5992614e68d97d3de6aa1c8bb3ae34d258ec0c0a90ccd81/IMG_4033.jpg" data-mid="184115751" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d5506e55c3bb46c0e5992614e68d97d3de6aa1c8bb3ae34d258ec0c0a90ccd81/IMG_4033.jpg" /> Cessna over Ebo II, 2022 lithographic snake slip on archival footage phototransfer;&nbsp;stone lithography on munken on the 24th of November 1975 – a day after the Battle of Ebo – Lieutenant Keith Williamson’s Cessna 185,&nbsp;while surveying the area,&nbsp;was shot down by Cuban/FAPLA forces in Ebo. the engagement in Ebo was one of the few that resulted from&nbsp;Operation Savannah (1975-1976), initiating the Apartheid regime’s long invasion of Angolan territory – with an overarching impetus of asserting domination over the region. as an echo of the cold war then unfolding, it materialised through conflict with the MPLA(FAPLA) and its Cuban allies. the ideology of the ascending ruling party was deemed a threat to the permanence of the regime in Southern Africa. the remains of Lieutenant Keith Williamson were exhumed and repatriated to South Africa in 2012. this work looks at his remains and the ones of his Cessna, along with other artillery remains from the attack in Ebo, as material evidence of an effaced invasion.&nbsp;Cessna over Ebo addresses the in-between that formed in the vacuum fabricated around the Operation with its recent silent acknowledgement. https://rauljorgegourgel.com/Ratel-Over-The-Hill Sun, 25 Jun 2023 17:36:41 +0000 Raul Jorge Gourgel https://rauljorgegourgel.com/Ratel-Over-The-Hill Ratel Over The Hill, 2022 window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-Y81WTNFZ24'); stamp on soil <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/69a9c827c8f035f65ef8e657e7188d0e6d514cf021ff8ecd7173963b19276a2d/IMG_6765-2.jpg" data-mid="183219506" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/69a9c827c8f035f65ef8e657e7188d0e6d514cf021ff8ecd7173963b19276a2d/IMG_6765-2.jpg" /><img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/257ca8f3c3eede2b1e0a731b265b9145ca4886a926fe389479961042faa99763/IMG_6764-2.jpg" data-mid="183219507" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/257ca8f3c3eede2b1e0a731b265b9145ca4886a926fe389479961042faa99763/IMG_6764-2.jpg" /> this work is a visual and semiotic study of the SADF RATEL IFV. the infantry vehicle was designed in 1972 to specifically fight in and withstand the conditions of Angolan soil to&nbsp;facilitate Apartheid invasion of it. along with its tactics,&nbsp;Ratel Over The Hill studies the brutal act of stamping onto Land under hegemonic pretences. it delves into the history of Land dynamics between Angola and South Africa, tracing it back in modern History to relations between&nbsp; Apartheid South African and Portuguese imperial Regimes. https://rauljorgegourgel.com/The-Sun-Rose-in-the-third-region Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:42:17 +0000 Raul Jorge Gourgel https://rauljorgegourgel.com/The-Sun-Rose-in-the-third-region The Sun Rose in the Third Region, 2021-ongoing window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-Y81WTNFZ24'); <img width="3013" height="2410" width_o="3013" height_o="2410" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6418b410f84f131bb828f473e98097ae7287e3f2158d423fabf72a3bd8893b35/IMG_34532.JPG" data-mid="183184163" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6418b410f84f131bb828f473e98097ae7287e3f2158d423fabf72a3bd8893b35/IMG_34532.JPG" />Ngangula on the Wall, 2022 aquatint, hardground and softground etching on fabriano <img width="2191" height="2739" width_o="2191" height_o="2739" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f5a8da84ccda67e2483a217e0766e456ef48f61520bc2e7776f9c4c8efb38ca0/IMG_34452.JPG" data-mid="183184162" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f5a8da84ccda67e2483a217e0766e456ef48f61520bc2e7776f9c4c8efb38ca0/IMG_34452.JPG" /> Ngangula in the Flesh, 2022aquatint, hardground and softground etching on fabriano <img width="7290" height="5100" width_o="7290" height_o="5100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee46f44d9f5eed0ba394697860ea58244cda6203bc8baa8c08ad48b2e19111ed/Untitled-2-copy.jpg" data-mid="183151696" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ee46f44d9f5eed0ba394697860ea58244cda6203bc8baa8c08ad48b2e19111ed/Untitled-2-copy.jpg" /> A Mirage at a Distance, 2022 colour reductive woodcut on munken <img width="6211" height="7764" width_o="6211" height_o="7764" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a60f7d0f2c1e9998c8c5bbda157347da9f271b5bc7265076d8acc9418f100d96/Untitled-2-2.JPG" data-mid="183183544" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a60f7d0f2c1e9998c8c5bbda157347da9f271b5bc7265076d8acc9418f100d96/Untitled-2-2.JPG" /> Ngangula, the Matrix, 2021 cut and inked up linoblock the story goes that on December 1st 1968, Augusto Ngangula – a child frequenting one of the MPLA’s CIR (centre for revolutionary instruction) – was on his way to class after a long break when he was approached by portuguese colonial troops. the child was reportedely questioned on the location of the MPLA base and school nearby and brutally murdered for his refusal to divulge. this story, its narrativised bravery and devotion in&nbsp;Ngangula's dramatis personae, along with the CIR system (where children were taught to read and write and introduced to the movement’s ideology) served as the model for the creation of Organização dos Pioneiros de Agostinho Neto (Organization of the Pioneers of Agostinho Neto) OPA, a children’s youth league- which in some ways assimilates to children scoutship. the story has, since the 1970s, been used as a role model fable for children into idealogical instillment, to live and die for Patria. there has been much contestation to the veracity of the story, members of the MPLA having come out in response multiple times over the years.&nbsp; 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