Jemmiro

Memories and moments in time

Jemmiro was born in Mozambique.  He transitioned into South Africa in 2003 to become a full-time artist and to escape what he describes as “limitations in the Mozambique art scene”.  He studied drawing, painting and print-making and has participated in a number of group and solo exhibitions in Johannesburg and Maputo.

In the efforts to “find himself” as an artist, Jemmiro produced a number of works, notably “Fragments”, “Finding the Inner Child” and “Under the Moonlight”, the latter featured in a solo exhibition.

He has recently become drawn to the Superblur art movement, which he discovered on the internet and became interested in.  “Saudades” is the word he uses to describe his work.  It doesn’t have a direct translation in English but to Jemmiro it represents “memories and moments in time” that are now akin to nostalgia but is more than that.  “Saudade” was once described as “the love that remains after someone is gone”

There is too much technology and no more social life according to Jemmiro – no human contact.  His Superblur art expresses the longing for those days and moments in time when humans connected to each other instead of technology.  His paintings can be “anywhere and anytime”, not qualified by time and space but rather the memory of human emotion captured on canvas.