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Angela Ferreira: Zip Zap and Zumbi

Event Phone: (773) 325-7506
Admission Price: Free
Architecture has played a major role in Ângela Ferreira’s research-based practice, in which buildings and structures are used as starting points for works of art that often engages with complicated colonial histories in Portugal and sub-Saharan Africa. For Ferreira, who was born in Mozambique, buildings are anthropological, sociological, political and aesthetic structures. Her work at DPAM triangulates a dialogue across time and geographies between the modernist forms of Mies van der Rohe, Mozambican architect Pancho Guedes, and vernacular architecture found in Portugal, Brazil and throughout countries in Africa.

This exhibition, organized on the occasion of the second Chicago Architecture Biennial, brings together two installations that come out of her in-depth research and represent geopolitical conflicts that are still being played out today. “Zip Zap Circus School” (2000-2002) references two failed projects: one by Mies van der Rohe in Den Haag and another by Mozambican modernist architect Pancho Guedes in Cape Town. Its sculptural and architectural materialization points to the idea that architecture can be seen as an object of desire and social change by a largely ignored community in a highly politicized and socially explosive South Africa of the end of the twentieth-century. By building a portion of Guedes’s architectural project as an art work, the artist rendered the idea of the dream as a political act.
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Venue Details:

DePaul Art Museum

935 W Fullerton
Chicago, IL 60614
(773) 325-7506
http://museums.depaul.edu/

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Sunday December 10, 2017 Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm
Saturday December 9, 2017 Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm
Friday December 8, 2017 Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:5:00pm
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Thursday November 30, 2017 Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm
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Thursday October 12, 2017 Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm
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Friday October 6, 2017 Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:5:00pm
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Saturday September 30, 2017 Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm
Friday September 29, 2017 Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:5:00pm
Thursday September 28, 2017 Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm
Wednesday September 27, 2017 Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm
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Friday September 8, 2017 Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:5:00pm
Thursday September 7, 2017 Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm
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