Sidney Amaral was a restless artist. Committed to experimentation, study and technical refinement, he explored different languages and materialities while developing a unique style. His work provokes feelings of strangeness, by using sophisticated montages from which eroticism, irony, sensitivity and social criticism emerge. Amaral was able to access the depths of human life and was […]

Born in the indigenous territory of Porto Lindo in 1975 in the municipality of Japorã, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Sandra Ara Benites has a long history in education. She was a teacher, and worked in the administration of public education in Mato Grosso do Sul, Santa Catarina and Rio de Janeiro, […]

The prohibitions applied to humans who differ from the white norm have been updated in order to ensure to the structures that control our bodies a supposed honesty attributed to science and monitoring and security technologies. The capture of presence, be it by visual or audiovisual means or through temperature sensing, motion detection, or other […]

Since the mid 1970s, Gretta Sarfaty has resorted to several languages – photography, engraving, painting, performance, video – to critique the representation of women in society. Making use of the militancy arguments prevailing at the time or the resumption of the debate in the last decades, there is no doubt that her production can be […]

In recente years, as I have been traveling through the worlds of this planet, I have noticed something that has been important to me since I was a child: plants that grow spontaneously. I grew up in two cities in the Amazon region: Santarém and Manaus. In these urbanized spaces, I have always lived alongside […]

When my Family moved to Contagem in 1973 it was a dormitory town, where we could afford the much dreamed-about house of our own. I lived there from the age of six to nineteen and then for a few more months now and then, before moving to São Paulo when I was 22. I remember […]

Fernanda, Over the last few weeks, I have spent a lot of time looking at your photos and collages, trying to find the right tone and the form to write and organize my impressions of your work. After a few tries that I wasn’t happy about, I thought that the simplicity of a letter would […]

A black man who records his peers with a camera is a conquest. The under representation of Brazilian Black art in collections, museums, galleries, festivals, exhibitions, publications, and curatorial projects is evidence that the work of white Brazilians continues to dominate the visual arts. If this Black guy is the son of a laundress and […]

“I find it difficult to look at these photo- graphs without flinching from the memories and from the anger they invoke. But I must look. I must remember, as you must. For this was history in the making. Like it or not, you cannot hide from the camera’s eye.” MYRLIE EVERS-WILLIAMS, foreword to The Civil […]

The story of the Tupinambá cloak is marked by images. I see our culture as a pot thrown to the ground, the pieces scattered all over the place. Now we have to reassemble it as if it were a jigsaw puzzle. The memory of the cloak is in our songs. Through them, we have succeeded […]