Nelo Teixeira
Nelo Teixeira (b. 1975, Luanda, Angola) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans installation, sculpture, collage, and painting. Deeply influenced by the visual and material culture of Luanda and its peripheries, his practice draws from everyday urban life, memory, and ancestral tradition. Using found objects — from scrap metal and plastic to packaging, wood, and textiles — Teixeira creates assemblages that merge personal history with collective experience.
Rooted in both contemporary and vernacular languages, his works explore themes of displacement, community, architecture, and transformation. His figures and forms, often raw and playful, echo African masks, urban ruins, and the improvisational spirit of survival.
For Teixeira, creation is an act of resistance and repair — a way of preserving what is in danger of disappearing, while imagining new ways to inhabit the world through matter, memory, and gesture.
