Cristiano Mangovo (b. 1982) is an Angolan visual artist currently based between Lisbon, Portugal and Cabinda, Angola. As a child, he fled the Angolan Civil War to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he went on to study at the Academy Des Beaux-Arts. Many of his paintings touch on the cultural differences between his two homes. The artist’s experiences in Angola have led him to advocate for social and environmental change through his artwork. His unique style combines surreal and expressionistic elements, painting distorted, multi-faceted faces, often with two mouths. The emphasis is less on the representation of the individual and more on the evocation of personality, movement, and the convergence of figure and object to showcase Mangovo’s thought. Through including multiple eyes and mouths on his figures, Mangovo represents vocal figures who are alert and open.