Ana Silva, born in Angola in 1969, is an artist living and working in Portugal who uses mixed-media and delicate embroidery to create deeply personal artworks. Her pieces often address the theme of intergenerational trauma stemming from the Angolan civil war, which she experienced as a child.
In her 2020 series, “O Fardo” (a Portuguese term for bags used to transport secondhand clothes to Africa), Ana Silva uses discarded bags as her canvases. On these found materials, she embroiders scenes of Angolan life using materials like lace, thread, and traditional fabrics. Through this work, she builds a visual narrative that connects continents and critiques issues like overconsumption in the fashion industry and the negative impacts of global capitalism. Thank you
Her work tells the history of an object that crosse several continents on the occasion of humanitarian missions, without thinking that one day it could come back to its origins, in a new shape.
"After years in a market, used as shadow, tidying bag, napkin or even as a simple product whose ultimate goal is the trash, I discovered the beauty of its texture, then I try to tell a story by creating these characters that add value and poetry to its existence." Ana Silva
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