Mozambican sculpture

Sculpture, in clay, representing two embraced human figures. The author, Reinata Sadimba, of Makonde origin, was born in 1945 in the Mueda Plateau (Cabo Delgado, Mozambique), and from a very young age was started in the production of the utilitarian pottery characteristic of that cultural group. In 1972 she joined FRELIMO, the party that fought for Mozambique's independence from Portuguese colonial rule, and in 1975, after her liberation from an abusive marital relationship, she began a profound transformation in the production of her ceramics. Due to the post-independence Mozambican civil war, in 1980 she emigrated to Tanzania, having returned to Mozambique in 1992 and working, since then, in a studio made available by the Museum of Natural History of Mozambique, in Maputo.