CASSI NAMODA – NIGHT ALWAYS RETURNS
2025-10-06Painter and visual artist Cassi Namoda crafts images that bridge the personal, the spiritual, and the continental. Drawing from a bricolage of literatures and art histories, her work interweaves memory, dream, cinema, and ecology to transfigure the mythologies as well as the contemporary and historical narratives of post-colonial Mozambique. Vital to her practice is a signature filmic storytelling voice, where recurring characters, locations, and motifs inhabit her canvases like vignettes that merge the documentarian with the magic realist.
Namoda’s newest exhibition, Night Always Returns, unfolds across four nocturnes, each exploring ideas of animality and the sensual aliveness that emerges after dark. Throughout the exhibition, human, animal, and elemental figures are shown in paired relationships that reveal symbolic mirrors and the porous boundary between human and natural worlds.
Opposite – Moon path and three Maria’s capricious spiral, 2025
Exhibition runs through to October 25th, 2025
303 Gallery
555 W 21st Street
NY 10011
New York
