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A Historic Look at the Videobrasil Collection. Conflictual episodes of history based on the personal perspectives of renowned artists. Curator: Agustín Pérez Rubio.
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O samba do crioulo doido, 2013
Video, 19’41”. Performance recording
Recording director: Marco del Fiol
Racial discrimination and its impact upon the black body are at the core of this performance piece by dancer Luiz de Abreu. Working with elements indefectibly associated with black Brazilians —samba, Carnival, eroticism— and with references to the white Nation, the artist creates images that speak of racism, of transgression as a form of resistance, and of the importance of the body in the construction of identity. Through the power of performance, and employing irony and mockery, he looks to return to the body-object the subject that has been stolen from it, with feelings, beliefs, and singularities. The piece was featured and won a prize at the 18th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil, in 2013.
Luiz de Abreu is a dancer and performer. His work examines stereotypes surrounding the black body. He has performed at dance festivals in France, Germany, Portugal, Croatia, Cuba, Spain, Africa, and Brazil. He featured in the Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre (2009), and put on the solo Travesti at the Sesc Dance show, São Paulo (2001). His work O samba do crioulo doido belongs to the video dance collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
© Photo: Renata D'Almeida
A Historic Look at the Videobrasil Collection. Conflictual episodes of history based on the personal perspectives of renowned artists. Curator: Agustín Pérez Rubio.