Mabunda converts dismantled war materials that were in use during the long and bloody civil wars – 16-year – that affected his country (Mozambique). The artist appropriates of all kind of war waste -bullets, bombs, files- and then assembles them with the final shape of masks and thrones.
Mabunda’s masks have a strong evocative power and maintain the symbolic and ritual values ​​of the ancient African tribal masks that are part of the artist’s culture and tradition, while converted in a contemporary way.