Hélio Buite (Angola, 1992) lives and works in Luanda. A civil engineering graduate, he grew up in Luanda navigating and constantly switching between two different contexts: informal Luanda and formal Luanda. His artistic practice dives into different disciplines such as photography, video, installation, audio and documentation to analyze the ways in which families are central to African societies, as woven between the will to decolonization and the patent reality of their relationship of coloniality with the West – processing also the influences and effects of independence movements, neocolonialism, civil wars and the complexities of political systems.

This residency is part of CARTA ABERTA PROGRAM.