My name is Aghi and I am a visual artist. Video and photography are my means of expression. I attended the Istituto italiano di fotografia and furthered my studies at the Metropolitan Film School in London.

I later studied Gestalt Art-therapy and Psycology of Art and Literature (at CISAT in Naples). 

My research explores the relationship between the perception of space, memory, and depth psychology, with special attention given to how bodies inhabit places or are inhabited by them. Thus, space is experienced as a producer of symbols and a photograph is a moment that transcends itself, in a ceaseless dialog with performative art and the poetic act. Each interpretation of space generates gestures, actions, and stories that the photographer intercepts by passing through them. In this respect, the theatrics and games of events that precede and generate each shot are part of the final work, as is the image that emerges. In recent years, the project/format I tend to prefer is long-term work alongside a community. Here, photography experiences a delicate struggle with oral history, seeking forms of co-creation with the viewer capable of correlating portrait, archive, and collective memory. This practice has led to my first publication, Outros Corpos Nossos (Mathoko's book 2021) and Once Were Colleagues, a work developed through a series of chapters that reconstructs the return journey of Mozambican workers from East Germany. In parallel, I organize experiential workshops using photography in a variety of locations, from the Psychoanalytic University of Berlin to the juvenile penitentiary of Maputo. Sometimes I am a solitary traveler seeking friction between myself and history or a community; other times I like to help communities tell their stories using collective videos and participatory photography. There are many places I call home: Mozambique, Spain, Berlin and, of course, Italy where I left my heart and where I first became acquainted with beauty.

I have chosen, for the time being, not to have an Instagram account. My aim is to create an oasis in which images can dialog unhurriedly and complete their process. For this reason, if you want to get news about my work, drop me your email. I won’t write more than two or three times a year. 

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