Kiluanji Kia Henda

Kiluanji Kia Henda belongs to a generation of Angolan artists, that lives and works in a country that has suffered a long term civil war, where history was overshadowed by the demanding of the each-day battles.
His practice creates in a deliberated manner evidences that locate new elements to interpret the society. Using art as method to forge history and more than putting together the pieces of a complex puzzle, Kiluanji explores performance, photography and video to materialize fictitious narratives, by speculating the heritage of the past and suggesting a possible imaginary future.
Kia Henda´s work is concerned with the freedom and the act of oneself representation. Using humor and irony, he interferes on subjects as identity, politics, perceptions of post-colonialism, modernism and science fiction. Working in pervert complicity with the historical legacy, Kia Henda sees the process of appropriation, manipulation, the use of the public spaces, structures and different representations that makes part of our collective memory, as a relevant complexion of his aesthetical construction.