This exhibition joins 18 works created in 2015. The technique Carmen Maria uses is based on the additive method in which the plate is made from hardboard, onto which are glued all types of materials and metals, to create the composition. The artist prefers to use hardboard as the main material for production of her plates as this technique permits a multiplicity of interpretations and thematic associations with little recourse of materials. The material used for the place has the unique characteristics that allow for absorption of colour and impact in the pressure during the process of transfer of the image from the plate to the paper.

Each print is unique and is not easily reproduced with the same plastic properties. With the reproduction of these images, come the colour and the pressure marks caused by the process of transferring the image from the plate to the paper. The work is also a product of accumulation of objects and materials.

Carmen Maria was born in Maputo in 1974. She completed a Graphics course at the Visual Arts School in Maputo and did a médium level course at the National Plastic Arts School in Havana.

She was a teacher at the Lopes Penha Visual Arts School in  Cuba and the Eugénio Lemos School – Gallery in Maputo. The artist is a founder-member of MUVART - Contemporary Art Movement of Mozambique since 2002, member of Núcleo de Arte Association since 1997 and of Kulungwana Association since 2012. She held a solo exhibition in Maputo in 1999, and took part in many group exhibitions in Mozambique, Japan, Namibia, Italy, Finland, Holand, China and Portugal. She has taken part in a few of the Colecção Crescente exhibitions at Kulungwana's gallery. She exhibited in MUVART exhibitions 2003 at the French-Mozambican Cultural Center and at the Fortaleza in Maputo, in 2004 at the National Art Museum and at the Contemporary Art Fair - FIL.

In 2015 she took part in the residency and exhibition RASTROS - Africa/Brazil contemporary art exchange. Her works are represented in private collections nationally and internationally, with collections including the National Art Museum of Mozambique and that of TDM - Telecomunicações de Moçambique. She currently teaches Drawing and Printing Techniqes at the National Visual Art School in Maputo. She lives and works in Maputo.

Kulungwana Association's "Sala de Espera" ("Waiting Room") Gallery is on Platform 5 at the Central Railway Station in Maputo. The exhibition can be visited until 29 August 2015.