Commissioner: José Olympio da Veiga Pereira, president of the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo
Curators: Gabriela de Matos e Paulo Tavares
Exhibitors: Ana Flávia Magalhães Pinto, Ayrson Heráclito, Day Rodrigues with the collaboration of Vilma Patrícia Santana Silva, Fissura collective, Ilê Axé Iyá Nassô Oká (Casa Branca do Engenho Velho), Juliana Vicente, Mbya-Guarani IndigenousPeople, Tukano, Arawak and Maku Indigenous Peoples, Tecelãs do Alaká (Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá),Thierry Oussou, Vídeo nas Aldeias
Brazil
Terra [Earth]
Album
Description
Terra is a founding motif in the narratives of the formation of Brazil. Representations of national identity were historically structured by idealised and racialised views of the frontier and tropical nature that subalternised Indigenous and Black peoples. Terra is also a founding motif in the philosophies and imaginaries of the Indigenous and African Brazilian populations that form the majority of the local cultural matrix. But here terra appears in a different form, drawing ancestral and diasporic territories that refer to artistic and architectural geographies more deeply and beyond Brazil. They point to another sense of the earth, and to other imaginaries of Brazil, and of the planet, both as past and future, as heritage and project, as reparation and design.
