Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Quilombos - ‘freed villages’ - were established by people who escaped enslavement over 400 years ago. In the communal gardens that grow in quilombos today, ancestral knowledge and traditions have been preserved by their descendants. Curator Cindy Sissokho tells us more. Our free exhibition ‘Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights’ is open until 27 April.

Credit: The Book of Landscapes (Livro da Paisagens)
Maria Floriza Veríssimo 2020 / 2024
Prints on Tyvek paper
Courtesy of Maria Floriza Veríssimo]

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