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The exhibition highlights Jasse’s ongoing interest in capturing and re-imaging the urban landscape of Luanda through photography; and focuses on works from the series Arquivo Urbano (2018), Sem Valor (2019).

Sem Valor (2019) captures the ‘boom and bust’ atmosphere of urban Luanda – the capital of
the Angola. Based on material Jasse shot in the city between 2013 and 2018, the series sketches an elliptical portrait of Luanda which witnessed a rapid economic development in the early nineties after 30 years of civil war, followed by a catastrophic crash as oil prices collapsed in 2014. Deeply …