The mother and child from Matola (2025)
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The mother and child from Matola (2025) weaves together historical narratives with Namoda’s lived experience. The depiction of the mother and child draws on religious iconography and the architecture of Catholic churches - central to the foundations of figurative painting. Namoda also reflects on her own journey of motherhood, expressing the strength of the mother as she carries her child leaving the artist’s home city Maputo.
Cassi Namoda (b. 1988, Mozambique) is a painter whose work transfigures the cultural mythologies and historical narratives of life in post-colonial Africa, particularly those of the artist’s native Mozambique. Namoda’s paintings are highly elusive, drawing upon literary, cinematic and architectural influences that capture the expansiveness of her specifically Luso-African vantage point.
Namoda's work has been included in exhibitions at Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, New York and Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, New York. Her recent solo exhibitions include Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami; Library Street Collective, Detroit; and Oof Books Gallery, Los Angeles, Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg and Mendes Wood in São Paulo. Her work is held in the public collection of the Pérez Art Museum Miami. Namoda has been the subject of profiles in Cultured Magazine, Kaleidoscope, Artnet, and Vogue. A suite of new paintings will be included in the upcoming group exhibition LA Dreams 2 at CFHILL, Stockholm.
