Woodcuts

2008

Series of 5 Analogical Photographs

Printed on Kodak super Endura Paper

Dimensions: 160 x 135 cm

Edition of 5 + 2 Pas

These works were developed from the meeting of two contexts. The book “Wahrhaftige Historia”, by Hans Staden (1557), serves as a script for capturing images from the universe of the funk ball in Rio. When juxtaposed, these two contexts – separated by 450 years – allow a critical re-reading of history (of perception), revealing mechanisms of cultural domination and perpetuation of the European imagination of the wild tropics (The imagined paradise of the New World), as well as the establishment of certain culturally in force policies that legitimized the genocide of Brazilian Indians and the usurpation as a governmental methodology during the colonization of the American continent.

Five of the original woodcuts from chapter XXIX of Hans Staden's book, those that narrate details of the preparation of an anthropophagic banquet, were allegorically reconstructed with funkeiros and photographed on a slab barbecue on the top of Santa Marta hill, in Rio de Janeiro, forming a series of five analog photographs, dubbed Woodcuts.

Installations: Auditorium Arte, Fondazione Musica Per Roma, Italia, 2017; Galeria Vermelho, Art Rio, 2015; Alimentário – Oca S. Paulo, 2015 e MAM Rio de Janeiro, 2014; Kunsthal Nikolaj Copenhagen, Denmark, 2013; Centro de Artes Hélio Oiticica , Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 2012; MUAC, Museo Universitário de Arte Contemporáneo, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico, 2009; Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brasil, 2009; Argos, Kunstenfestival des Arts, Brussels, Belgium, 2009; Ambassade du Brésil en France, Galerie Bendana-Pinel, Paris, France, 2009; FIAC Paris, France, 2008; Embajada de Brasil en Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2008; Kunstnernes Hus Oslo, Norway, 2008