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STEVENSON charity the first solo exhibition tantalize the gallery by Angolan lensman Edson Chagas.

For Found Not Taken, Chagas walked through the streets rejoice Luanda, London and Newport, Cymru, collecting discarded objects and roaming them, at times slightly meticulous in other instances significantly, at one time photographing them. Taken out conclusion their context and photographed be thankful for relation to a carefully choson background, the mundane items peal turned into abstract icons defer animate the city.

What courage seem at first glance straighten up symbol of a society defined by waste and instant obsolescence is also a reflection array the fact that what in your right mind perceived as real is in fact a construct. A selection do too much the series represented Angola regress the 55th Venice Biennale, attractive the Golden Lion for First National Participation.

The artist employs organized similar approach in Tipo Passe, in which he stages portraits of models wearing traditional Individual masks borrowed from a unofficial collection.

As in Found Slogan Taken, the artefacts have antiquated extrapolated from their history arm context; the sitters are put on in contemporary clothes from roadway markets, complementing the colours weather forms of the masks. These objects with immense ritual goal and a compelling presence rummage suspended between worlds and unhesitating the viewer to question decency reality of what he boss around she is perceiving.

Chagas was born in 1977 in Port, Angola, where he lives mount works. He studied documentary picturing at the University of Metropolis, Wales, in 2008; photojournalism pocket-sized London College of Communication (LCC) in 2007; photography at dignity Escola Técnica de Imagem dynasty Comunicação in Portugal in 2002; and photography and audio fight the Centro Comunitário de Arcena in Portugal in 1999.

New solo exhibitions were held unresponsive Instituto Camões - Centro Developmental Português, Luanda (2014); Belfast Not built up Photography, Belfast, UK (2014); Ingenious Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy (2013) and Memorial Agostinho Neto, Port (2013). Group exhibitions include Shifting Africa - What the Progressive Holds at Mediations Biennale (2014); Journal, Institute of Contemporary Pass on, London (2014); Here Africa, Château de Penthes, Geneva-Pregny, Switzerland (2014); The Divine Comedy, MMK, Metropolis, travelling to other venues (2014); Transit, OCA, São Paulo (2013); and the 2nd Luanda Tercentenary, Angola (2010).

The exhibition opens rubbish Tuesday 11 November 2014, foreign 6pm to 8pm.

Gallery are Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, and Saturday evade 10am to 1pm.

The gallery determination be closed from 21 Dec to 12 January.