Edson Chagas (*1977) lives and works in Luanda, Angola. He studied photography and audio at the Centro Comunitário de Arcena in Portugal in 1999; photography at the Escola Técnica de Imagem e Comunicação in Portugal in 2002; photojournalism at London College of Communication (LCC) in 2007 and documentary photography at the University of Newport, Wales, in 2008. Recent solo exhibitions were held at Brescia, Italy (2013) and Memorial Agostinho Neto, Luanda (2013) and Instituto Camões - Centro Cultural Português, Luanda (2014); Belfast Exposed Photography, Belfast, UK (2014). Group exhibitions include Transit, OCA, São Paulo (2013); and The 2nd Luanda Triennial, Angola (2010); Shifting Africa - What the Future Holds at Mediations Biennale (2014); Journal, Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2014); Here Africa, Château de Penthes, Geneva-Pregny, Switzerland (2014); The Divine Comedy, MMK, Frankfurt, travelling to other venues (2014).
Ana Balona de Oliveira is a FCT Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Comparative Studies of the University of Lisbon and at the Institute for Art History of the New University of Lisbon and a Visiting Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
