Tugambique is a series of actions focusing on the pagan manifestations of Portugal and Mozambique in the fields of ceramics and masks. The similarities between paganism in both territories, particularly its subversive and liberating characteristics, have led to the persecution of these forms of expression in both countries throughout history. It is possible to find pagan, hybrid and grotesque figures in these territories that arouse enormous attraction, “entities” coming from the ancestry of our civilization that arrive on days of general catharsis and literally appear to liberate us from the “good” in force.

Tugambique began in 2023 in the field of ceramics with the creation of the “A Quatro Mãos” project; in 2024, the concert “Mocambo” and a performance-installation “Possessão” premiered in the field of masks; 2025 saw the culmination of the project as part of the 50th anniversary of Mozambican independence. In 2023, “A Quatro Mãos” brought together in the same studio the most important name in Barcelos figurative art, Júlia Côta, with the reference in Mozambican ceramics - recently decorated by the President of the Portuguese Republic - Reinata Sadimba, allowing the two octogenarian artists to dive into each other's vast imaginary, gradually conceiving four-handed pieces where the world of the grotesque, the pagan and the tribal so latent in the work of both intersect. The result will be presented at an exhibition at the Camões Institute in Maputo in December 2024. In the same month, Jonas&Lander begin the process of researching and creating the concert “Mocambo”, with Mozambican musicians, and the process of creating the installation-performance “Possession”, designed for museum spaces in both territories where, for the first time, pagan masks from Mozambique and Portugal cohabit in the same space. A fictional scenic space where these “entities” cross rituals associated with each mask and explore the change caused in the physicality and behavior of those who wear them. By bringing together and crossing Portuguese and Mozambican pagan culture, Tugambique brings together communities that may generally feel underrepresented in the world of performing arts.