Ru(in)minations
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Title
Ru(in)minations
Subject
Thinking landscapes and people through ruins in Lugela District, Zambezia Province
Description
Ruins are like archaeological sites not covered by sand. They stand in plain sight and as such they materially interpellate us. They engage us. They constantly flash stories and images of times gone by and yet so present, vivid yet quasi dead. They share aspirations and dreams that didn't come true but yet partially materialised. This short exposition of some ruins in Lugela District in the Digitalscape with its own mechanisms of inscribing memories and creating materialities, seeks to bring those aspirations and dreams to public engagement in a series of photographs that were taken between 2016-2018. This collection invites to rethink notions such as space and time as linear, but rather through the ruins embark on its fluidity and connect with the different emergences that such fluidity enables.
Creator
Anselmo Matusse
Source
Anselmo Matusse, PhD thesis fieldwork 2016-2018
Publisher
Anselmo Matusse
Date
2016-2018
Contributor
National Geographic Society; National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences- NIHSS_CODERSRIA
Rights
Anselmo Matusse
Relation
Mount Mabu
Format
Photograph
Language
Portuguese, English, Manhaua
Type
still image
Coverage
Lugela district, Zambezia Province,
Collection Items
A ruin in former Societe du Madal's tea estate destroyed during the civil war
In this photo we see an infrastructure which used to be used by a colonial tea estate Societe du Madal. That infrastructure was destroyed during the civil war in Mozambique.
Tractor engine abandoned in Lugela district
This photograph shows an engine of a tractor that was abandoned in Lugela district that came in the area through aspirations of rural transformations through technology