Between Cities and Ance-stories: Launching Transit(o) and Mavu
Looking forward to seeing you!
Join us at the courtyard at 44 Stanley from 10am on 11 October for the launch of two new publications!
In collaboration with Editor Tamoda studio, we have had Victoria Marques and Pamina Sebastião as interns for the last few months. Now join us in celebrating all they have learnt and achieved in their time with Pulp at the launch of their books - Mavu (by Pamina) and Transit(o) (by Victoria).
Victoria Marques and Pamina Sebastião are two interdisciplinary artists and activists whose practices intersect across body, gender, and memory.
Vick is a queer nomadic visual artist, storyteller, and researcher working between South America and Southern Africa. Her work investigates stories and territories historically subalternized, unfolding through urban art, collage, performance, and photography. She currently collaborates with rural communities in eastern Angola as storyteller for the National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project, while deepening her research into South-South dialogues and decolonial imaginaries.
Pamina is a queer Angolan artivist whose work is rooted in gender justice and sexual rights. For over a decade, she has been active as a consultant and movement builder across LGBTIQ+ and feminist networks in Angola and the African continent. She is co-creator of several community-led initiatives such as Arquivo de Identidade Angolano, Wiki Luanda, Tanto Edições, and Rompe Luanda. Her work has been recognized internationally through awards including the Prince Claus Fund Award (2022), Queer Artist of the Year (2023), and the Bantumen Powerlist (2023).
Together, they wield art as a tool for resistance, collective healing, and radical imagination. Back in Luanda/Angola, they are starting @editoratamoda, an independent publisher and @estudiomafumeira a printmaking studio where they plan to gather all this knowledge and transform it into printed revolutions.
“Transit(o)” by Victoria Marques is a book that weaves photography, text, and memory to reflect on migration, belonging, and the city. It documents urban art and spaces through an afro-diasporic queer body, crafting intimate and collective corpographies. The work is the result of seven years of transit across three big cities in the Global South: São Paulo, Luanda, and Johannesburg.
Pamina’s project, Mavu, is a center-stitched zine that extends her research project Mundo Mavu into print. Combining text, image, and myth, it explores absence, memory, and transformation. Inspired by the mythology of the Chibados—a third-gender people in precolonial Angola—Mavu serves as both archive and experiment, embracing non-linear storytelling and visual language.
