YONAMINE

 

Born in Angola in 1975, has lived in Angola, Zaire (R.D.C.), Brazil,

United Kingdom, Germany and Zimbabwe. At the moment

Yonamine lives in Greece, and worksbetween Athens,

Luanda, Lisbon and Berlin.

 

Yonamine’s prolific and diverse artistic practice includes painting, drawing,

graffiti, photography, video, and other media, such as tattooing and body art.

His multimedia installations are both personal diaries and explorations of

African history and politics.

 

Currently his work is articulated by complex installations, large murals,

photographs and videos. In these works, the artist uses an immense range of

objects and materials, such asnewspapers, serigraphs, drawings, collages and

traces where images from popular culture, American films, personalities that populate

the masses and political figures of the African continent and the world overlap. In

this great mixture, the artist builds a peculiar vocabulary on these references

and his own positions.