Vera Chaves Barcellos is a crucial figure in Brazilian contemporary art, with a long journey of experimentation and exploration of the limits of the photographic language and reproducible image. One of the most paradigmatic works of her career is the series Epidermic Scapes, developed between 1977 and 1982 – a period in which the artist […]

It was now, in this last carnival, the first of the Carnivals in which she said she had truly abandoned herself to the revelry, that an exceptional moment – to say the least – happened. It is not for me to tell here all the details – besides, I don’t have them – but what […]

“My mission is to exorcize history,” said Ayrson Heráclito, in a lecture given in 2016. Since the 1980s, Heráclito, an artist, professor and curator from Bahia, has been clarifying the misconceptions of the Eurocentric historical narrative and its biased and racist perspective. His interest in the Yoruba culture and its origins in Nigeria, as well […]

The 50th anniversary of the 1973 military coup against President Salvador Allende’s elected government is an opportune time to refl ect on the dissident work of Chilean artists – there weren’t many of them. Among these, the work of Lotty Rosenfeld stands out, both individually and through CADA (Colectivo de Acciones de Arte [Art Actions […]

I am the meeting of two worlds: an ancestral world versus a “civilized” world. An encounter that clearly promotes a confrontation and ends buried by that civilization’s machines, where humans and machines merge into one body only. Where the eyes are machines of desire. We only desire what we see. We see the world from […]

He is nobody´s, but therefore he is not a street dog either. Perhaps, more precisely, he’s a neighborhood dog, from that neighborhood, any neighborhood, which is what makes him unique, as well: if we’re to recognize him, we’ll need a few more very particular and precise details. And, even unitentionally, he can do it, like […]

My salvation, to write, to try to understand the monster. My daughter’s tooth, a little milk tooth, milky, tiny. My daughter’s smile, her sacred mouth still full of milk teeth, my treasure, my jewels, which are loose, will get lost somewhere, where will she go?, has she already been?, I can’t think properly, I’m shaken, […]

Details of the jewels on the fingers, nails are spear tips. Closed fists clasp on the waist asking for equality. Let the high point be a dimension of energy favorable to us to break down and bring down greedy rockets. They do not go up, they turn into iron embers. At the great time they […]

The ambiguity of the circle In the beginning, there was Chaos; there was Everything and there was Nothingness as well. In Egyptian mythology, at the beginning of time, the Kemetic god of creation, Atum-Ra, the female and male cosmic origin, created the Universe in the form of an egg. The term “Egypt” means “land below […]

I looked at you from the corner of my eye as you walked around the house. It was nice to follow your footsteps without you realizing it. The way you opened the book and licked your middle finger before turning the page. The way you took off your slippers and crossed your long legs on […]