Solo Exhibition — Okufeti(ka)
May 30 — August 10, 2019
Jahmek Contemporary Art Luanda, Angola

Cow horn, steel cable, metal support,
470 x 120 x 20 cm. Luanda, Angola

Stone architecture and metallurgy brought new forms of interaction between people, apart from economic, social and technological changes.
For some peoples, it marked the transition from hunting and gathering to settled life. Planting crops and raising livestock led to the growth of settlements, and with them, the domestication of animals and nature.

Cattle continues to be a symbol of wealth in Angola’s pastoral cultures. The installation honors the continuity of this practice to the present day, evidenced by the abundance of terms to describe the appearance of the cattle, as well as its value, in the southern Angola.

In one of the versions of the Féti myth, Tembo (another wife of Féti) is said to have become the mother of the Humbi and other cattle-raising peoples whose life is as slow and deliberate
as the walk of their cattle.

A arquitectura de pedra e a metalurgia trouxer-
am novas formas de interacção entre as pessoas, bem como mudanças económicas, sociais e tecnológicas, incluindo mais ênfase na criação de gado.

O gado bovino continua a ser um símbolo de riqueza nas culturas pastorícias de Angola.
A obra honra a continuidade dessa prática até
aos dias hoje, evidenciada pela abundância de termos para descrever a aparência do gado,
bem como a sua valorização, no sul de Angola.

Numa das versões do Mito Féti, conta-se que Tembo (outra esposa de Féti) se tornou a mãe dos Humbi e de outros povos criadores de gado, cuja vida era lenta e deliberada, assim como
a caminhada dos seus bois.

Acknowledgement
Mestre Daniel and colleagues