Antropofagia
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"Antropofagia means to eat oneself or to assimilate oneself. One character in the painting is cutting her hair off, which will be collected by the second character and cooked by the third character. In a way, it's a reflection on being an artist, the expectations people have of artists, and the questions of how do we survive, how do we create things, how we make a living and how we can afford to eat - are we eating ourselves?
At the same time, hair is a big part of one's identity. We choose to cut our hair to adjust or assimilate how we see ourselves in a specific moment. So I think this is also a painting about assimilation and acceptance of change and new things."
[Indirektes Zitat aus einem von KAH geführtem Interview mit der Künstlerin am 12.11.2025]
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Mafalda Figueiredo
Mafalda Figueiredo (b.1991, Lisbon) is a figurative painter. She graduated from the Fine Arts University of Lisbon in 2013 and has subsequently lived and worked in Berlin, London and recently Vienna where she's now based. Figueiredo’s work deals with the matter of identity: she’s interested in self-analysis and the communication between the subconscious and the conscious mind. Through figurative painting she aims to build a visual bridge between those two entities which allows her to process her personal experiences and document them. Her work deals with themes that reflect our present times: it raises questions about gender, femininity, individual fears caused by ancestral trauma and collective fears caused by an uncertainty about the future.