Nelo Teixeira

"For Nelo Teixeira, creation is both a gesture of remembrance and transformation. His practice is anchored in the belief that discarded materials carry stories — fragments of daily life, cultural memory, and resilience. By assembling these materials into complex visual structures, he reclaims what has been forgotten or devalued.

His work resists polish and perfection; instead, it embraces rawness, humour, and imperfection as aesthetic principles. Figures, masks, and architectures emerge through improvisation, evoking the energy of the city and the intimacy of shared memory.

Teixeira sees art as a tool to both preserve and reinvent — a space where what is marginal or lost finds new centrality through form, colour, and poetic accumulation."

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Nelo Teixeira

Nelo Teixeira (b. 1975, Luanda, Angola) is a multidisciplinary artist working across installation, sculpture, collage, and painting. Deeply influenced by the material culture of Luanda and its surrounding communities, his work draws from the rhythms of urban life, memory, and ancestral heritage.

Teixeira frequently uses found and repurposed objects — scrap metal, packaging, wood, fabric, plastics — to build layered compositions that reflect both personal narratives and broader social dynamics. His aesthetic merges traditional African visual languages with contemporary concerns, capturing the hybrid and ever-evolving nature of Angolan identity.

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