Banda M´Laio

Mozambique

Banda M'Laio as a moral equivalent of adjustment to the spiritual and mental standard.

In the midst of ruptures and new dynamics in artistic practice, the national cultural space has been giving voice since 2017 to a new avant-garde which, seeking not only to act as a lung for silenced places, continually operates in the existential interrogation, that is: at the Who Are We. In fact: when we radically affirm that we are, we are, in other words, saying that being as a place of communion and interiority cannot be achieved without appealing to the face of the other. This is where Banda M'Laio as a moral equivalent of adjustment to the spiritual and mental standard – was born not to dictate a new model of values and behaviors, but to give itself to careful reflection as well as the duty to investigate through of music, dance and poetry the sign of the times, and interpreting them in the light of an aesthetic that makes elements of both the past and present coexist.