Unerasable Memories
Ein historischer Blick auf die Sammlung Videobrasil. Konfliktive Episoden der Geschichte aus der Perspektive bekannter Kunstschaffender. Kurator: Agustín Pérez Rubio.
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Barrueco, 2004
Video, 4’30”
On both sides of the Atlantic, people of African ancestry worship water as the site of the principal spirits. This spiritual bond becomes complicated by the onslaught of the slave trade, which inaugurates the terror of the immeasurable ocean, symbolizing the wound of separation for over nine million people. Taking its title from a Spanish word that designates imperfect pearls, molded by fortuitous currents, the work presents an array of symbolic visual elements —the amber surface of boiling dendê oil, the tragic slave ship— that together with Nina Simone’s voice and the words of Mira Albuquerque’s poem Divisor, orchestrate the pain and the oppression of bodies forever in transit.
Ayrson Heráclito is an artist, curator, and professor. He works with installation, performance, photography, and video, dealing with elements of African-Brazilian culture. He has exhibited at collective shows such as Afro-Brazilian Contemporary Art, Europalia.Brasil, Brussels (2012); The Luanda Triennial, Angola (2010); and MIP 2, International Performance Manifestation, Belo Horizonte (2009). He was among the prizewinners at the 17th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil (2011).
Danillo Barata is an artist, curator, and professor. His work combines performance and image, and focuses on the relationship between the body, the camera, the art system, and the world. His work is featured in the collections of the Museum der Weltkulturen Frankfurt (Germany), the World Wide Visual Factory (the Netherlands), and the Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia. Danillo Barata won a prize at the 16th Videobrasil.
© Still: Ayrson Heráclito und Danillo Barata
Ein historischer Blick auf die Sammlung Videobrasil. Konfliktive Episoden der Geschichte aus der Perspektive bekannter Kunstschaffender. Kurator: Agustín Pérez Rubio.