What's on - Efie Gallery
- Art Salon Team
- Apr 28, 2025
- 2 min read
María Magdalena Campos-Pons
I Am Soil. My Tears Are Water.
14 APR - 25 MAY 2025
The role of the artist is and has always been uniquely difficult, impossible even. To capture a world that is ever fugitive and constantly evolving. In a way, it echoes the diaspora experience, trying to gather seeds that had long blown away in various directions. María Magdalena Campos-Pons, from Matanzas in Cuba, has been a practising artist for almost 50 years now, constantly fine-tuning and expanding her practice to think about the world and her role within it. Her approach has always been multi and inter disciplinary; photography, painting, printmaking, video, sound, performance, sculpture, installation. Whatever the work requires. And what is the work? It feels like a bid to capture the unique magic of what it means for us to be here existing. All the things that had to happen to lead to this moment; our ancestors, our gods, our planet, our trees, our water. Her art is a manifestation of the spiritual miracles that we might sometimes see as mundane. Her identity and being have often been the driving forces behind her work. She is a Cuban artist living and working in Nashville, Tennessee, with Yoruba ancestry via her family that came from Nigeria to Matanzas to work on the sugar fields. She also has Chinese ancestry. Her work has always tried to uncover the links between people, geography and communities across continents and generations. How is an identity formed? What are the things that continue to weave the world together?
About Efie Gallery
Efie Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Dubai specialising in the representation and advancement of artists of African origin, both from the African continent and its global diaspora.
Since its inception in 2021, and the opening of its permanent space in 2022 in Al Khayat Art Avenue, the gallery has been establishing itself as a global platform for some of Africa’s most significant artists.
Efie Gallery enables and supports cross-cultural exchange between Africa, the Middle East and beyond. In addition to its wide-ranging roster of artists and exhibitions, the gallery operates a dynamic residency programme that facilitates collaborations with local artists, institutions and community members, supporting artists in the narrative and vision of their work.
(Source: https://efiegallery.com/about-us/)
Opening hours: Monday – Saturday, 11 am – 7 pm
Closed from 6th July to 1 September 2024
Address: 19th Street – Al Quoz 1, Off First Al Khail Street
