Established by Vilma Santos and José Eduardo Ferreira Santos fourteen years ago, Acervo da Laje is one of Brazil's most compelling contemporary art initiatives. Based on works by artists from Subúrbio Ferroviário de Salvador, Acervo da Laje is a museum-home-school welcoming and mirroring the tensions,...
Established by Vilma Santos an...
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The 60th anniversary of the civil-military coup is now upon us, and Brazil is grappling with the consequences of the putschist storming of the three branches of government and the exhibition Brasil Futuro: As Formas da Democracia, which at the time was on display at...
The 60th anniversary of the ci...
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(Português) Um ecossistema cultural chamado sertão por uma Bienal que “educa a paisagem”. Sobre a 6ª edição da Bienal do Sertão, no Centro Cultural Banco do Nordeste Cariri, até 31 de outubro....
(Português) Um ecossistema cu...
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The first Amazon Biennial combines traditional knowledge with forward-looking perspectives, bringing us to "bubble" in the world's most prominent forest.Belém, capital of the huge Brazilian state of Pará, will be hosting in 2025 the next edition of COP30, the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Nevertheless,...
The first Amazon Biennial comb...
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Usina de Arte (inaugurated in 2015) is an exceptional initiative of the Pessoa de Queiroz family in Água Preta, Zona da Mata Sul, Pernambuco, a place that is currently marked by great cultural controversy.Usina emerges as a provocation to give another meaning to the past...
Usina de Arte (inaugurated in ...
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In 2015, in a project that brought together artists and anthropologists, I was invited to go to the indigenous world games in Palmas, Tocantins, Brazil. In the arena where the games took place, there were spaces for debate. A constant theme of these debates –...
In 2015, in a project that bro...
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The archaeology of the landscape and natural phenomena, mainly the geological one and that of the decomposition of things, has been a leitmotiv of research and representation by several contemporary artists. The rediscovery of nature – not only in its procedural or logical properties, but...
The archaeology of the landsca...
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