however, questioned the jury's choice and partialitya stance, in turn, criticized by a writer for OkayAfrica. The award made Angola the first African nation to win the Biennale's top honors. Artsy Giles Peppiatt later named Chagas's series as a recommended purchase at the 2014 1:54 contemporary African art fair. Later years At the next Biennale, Angola presented five artists in On Ways of Traveling. Based on the idea of an intergenerational dialogue, the exhibition focuses on how a younger generation of artists and citizens in an independent Angola further the legacies and cultural fusions of past generations. Francisco Vidal showed Utopia Luanda Machine, a mixed-media work that folds into crates and includes images of Zadie Smith, Kanye West, and cotton plants painted on machetes. The artist hoped to create a new African industrial revolution that would combine art, craft, and design. Other works included Binelde Hyrcan's humorous short video of four boys on an imaginary road trip, Délio Jasse's layered images floating in a basin of colored water, Nelo Teixiera's mask sculptures, and António Ole's assemblage of plastic tubs. Ole also served as the exhibition's curator. The show mounted in Venice's Palazzo Pisani a San Stefano. The pavilion's commissioner, RitaGT, said that the Angolan Ministry of Culture had been a strong supporter of participation in the Biennale for its impact both on the country and in bringing its contemporary art to an international stage. Ole returned to represent Angola in the 2017 Biennale. He showed five short films from his Lisbon Gulbenkian Museum 50-year career retrospective. The documentaries and narrative films traced Angola's history and Ole's career. The scenes focus on Angola's post-colonial independence, e.g., women singing at a carnival, the first Angolan president, and the forced migration of the Nambuangongo people. The films were projected onto the white walls of a two-story room. The country did not participate in the 2019 Biennale. Representation by year References National pavilions Angolan art