{"title":"Cassi Namoda","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"cassi-namoda-suspicious-talk-2018-acrylic-on-canvas-152x122","title":"Cassi Namoda (Mozambican, b. 1988) | Suspicious Talk, 2018 | Acrylic on canvas, 152x122","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSigned, dated and titled to verso ‘Suspicious Talk Namoda 18 Chatham, New York’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRANAS ART","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57677206356317,"sku":null,"price":18000.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0292\/6552\/6843\/files\/nomada.jpg?v=1748200269"},{"product_id":"cassi-namoda-mozambican-b-1988-medicine-man-on-a-visit-to-lourenco-marques-2018-oil-acrylic-on-canvas-137x117","title":"Cassi Namoda (Mozambican, b. 1988) | Medicine Man on a Visit to Lourenço Marques, 2018 | Oil, acrylic on canvas, 137x117","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSigned and titled to upper and lower right ‘Lourenço Marques Namoda’. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"specification spec\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"specification\"\u003eCertificate of authenticity from Nina Johnson Gallery.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"provenance spec\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading\"\u003eProvenance:\u003c\/span\u003e Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami | Private Collection\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"37\" data-end=\"517\"\u003eCassi Namoda’s painting \u003cem data-start=\"61\" data-end=\"106\"\u003eMedicine Man on a Visit to Lourenço Marques\u003c\/em\u003e (2018) brings together two contrasting worlds – traditional African healing practices and the symbols of colonial modernity. Lourenço Marques, referenced in the title, was the name of Mozambique’s capital city until 1975, when it was renamed Maputo following the country’s independence. The name itself honors a 16th-century Portuguese trader and explorer, reflecting the enduring traces of colonial history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"519\" data-end=\"1208\"\u003eIn this composition, a “medicine man” – a traditional healer – is depicted entering an urban, Westernized environment. His striking figure, rendered in bold, vibrant colors, conveys spiritual power and cultural resilience, standing in contrast to the abstract, modern background that hints at colonial influence and urban change. Namoda’s expressive brushwork and chromatic contrasts create a tension between cultural continuity and historical transformation. Through this work, Namoda explores Mozambique’s colonial past, social rituals, and the poetics of everyday life, blending personal experience with collective memory to reflect on cultural encounters in the age of globalization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRANAS ART","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58128853533021,"sku":null,"price":8000.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0292\/6552\/6843\/files\/namoda_137_117_x2_1324b79d-3f12-4eda-8158-b3d0f1a7260f.jpg?v=1758988761"},{"product_id":"cassi-namoda-mozambican-man-of-my-dreams-2017-acrylic-on-canvas-91x91","title":"Cassi Namoda (Mozambican, b. 1988) | Man of My Dreams, 2017 | Acrylic on canvas, 91x91 (93.5x93.5)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSigned, dated and dedicated in felt tip pen, verso.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCassi Namoda (b. 1988, Maputo, Mozambique) is a painter whose richly coloured figurative works bring together personal memory, Mozambican history, mythology and the visual language of everyday life. Having grown up across several countries and briefly studied cinematography, she approaches painting almost like filmmaking, constructing scenes that feel like fragments from a larger, unfolding narrative. Her work frequently draws on archival photography, literature and art history, combining African vernacular traditions with references to European modernism and the Western canon. Through this mixture, Namoda creates a distinctive form of magical realism in which ordinary encounters become charged with nostalgia, desire, humour and melancholy. Her paintings are held in collections including the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Baltimore Museum of Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this painting, Namoda constructs an intimate and enigmatic interior in which music, romance and melancholy seem to coexist. A woman holding records stands beside a turntable, while the prominently painted word “BEETHOVEN” introduces a direct reference to the European musical canon—a characteristic example of Namoda’s tendency to bring Western cultural references into dialogue with African experience. The solitary male figure, the woman’s tear, and the dramatic orange sun create the atmosphere of a scene remembered rather than simply observed, somewhere between domestic reality and dream. Its flattened perspective, expressive outlines and saturated fields of pink, ochre, green and deep blue reinforce the artist’s characteristic sense of magical realism. 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