TCHOQUEWE, UM RITUAL CONTRA O FIM DOS TEMPOS

Emerging from Verkron’s exploration of African identity, spirituality, and imagined futures, Tchoquewe, Um Ritual Contra o Fim dos Tempos brings together the human figure and the giant sable antelope, an animal deeply associated with Angola and threatened with extinction. Their boundaries dissolve into a hybrid presence, creating a space where human and non-human life are understood as interconnected rather than separate.

Characteristic of Verkron’s Afro-surrealist and Afro-futurist language, the work draws on cultural memory and the natural world to imagine realities beyond conventional divisions. The idea of ritual becomes a means of confronting disappearance — ecological, cultural, and symbolic — while the hybrid figure embodies both vulnerability and continuity. Suspended between preservation and transformation, the work reflects on what must be carried forward when environments, species, and identities themselves are under threat.