REINATA
SADIMBA (Sadhimba) Passema (1945)
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Reinata Sadimba was born
in 1945 in the village of Nemu, Mozambique. Daughter of
farmers she first received the traditional Makonde education
that included making utilitary objects in clay.
Although the Makondes
attribute the main part in society to women, in Mozambique,
and also in Tanzania, sculpturing is still a "man's
job". Maybe that is the reason why no one took Reinata
Sadimba's art too seriously at first. 
However, in 1975 she initiates
a deep transformation in her ceramics becoming known worldwide
by her "weird and fantastic forms". Reinata
Sadimba is now considered one of the most important women
artists of the entire African Continent. She has received
several prizes, exhibited her work in Belgium, Switzerland,
Portugal or Denmark and her work is represented in several
institutions from the National Museum of Mozambique, to
the portuguese Etnographic Museum or Culturgest's Modern
Art Collection, and in numerous private collections around
the world.
Reinata Sadimba at her studio
source: "Outras Plasticidades"
(1999) - Instituto Camões; "Africa e Mediterraneo"
Magazine (09/2002)
Selected
Exhibitions
Reinata
Sadimba GALLERY
Reinata Sadimba "Mask"
