trauma and repair
We reproduce two texts extracted from the book "Travessia do Silêncio, Testemunho e Reparação" (2015), by Clínica do Testemunho
the obscene of the image
Not all photography is restorative as intended, for example, the Berlin Biennale, when exhibiting a work with records of prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib, Iraq
the right to kill
"Necropolitics", by Achille Mbembe, sheds light on the exercise of politics in our own history, marked by slavery and racism
Anthropophagy versus modernism
In the contrast between the two movements, it is important to recover the debate around the visual arts and the memory of Oswaldo Costa, an important critic of culture and art in the second half of the 20s, in São Paulo
Modernism in Hispanic America
In Latin America, modernity arrived belatedly under the pressure of the new and with the desire to affirm a new aesthetic. In Europe the...
Is art without class struggle just decoration?
For some decades, a new ethical position has emerged in artists who work with struggles of groups and communities that are not part of hegemonic systems.
Afro-descendants, the internet and democracy at the end of the tunnel
While this too is a very distant dream, it is much closer than the dream of a golden age. However, the...
Aesthetic moment and the ethical time of democratic reparation
From different historical occurrences and concepts of psychoanalysis, the author discusses the idea of infinite mourning - common to cases of collective losses - and talks about the need for reparation
Breaking the complicity between the aesthetic and the colonial device: art...
Márcio Seligmann-Silva analyzes narratives about the history of Afro-descendant Brazilian art, which involves a series of traumatic repetitions over time
The boycott of Grada Kilomba in the official Portuguese representation of the Bienal...
By Ana Teixeira Pinto* On November 11, 2021, DGARTES (Direção Geral das Artes) announced the result of the competition for the...
