"DAS AVÓS", 2019, video installation by Rosana Paulino. Photo: Videobrasil.

Decolonial, de-othering: imagining a post-national policy that institutes new subjectivities...

Based on a discussion raised by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung on the occasion of the 21st Bienal Sesc_VideoBrasil, Márcio Seligmann-Silva reflects on colonial and post-colonial issues, extremely relevant in the current global context; text will be published in two parts

The time and the turn of the Democrats to act

Believing that art can only develop in a free society, the arte!brasileiros expresses its solidarity with USP professors and publishes a letter in which they propose that the democratic forces of Brazil unite to put an end to the authoritarian Bolsonarist project

Build colorful parachutes? Corona and dreams beyond the apocalypse...

Márcio Seligmann-Silva comments on Krenak's new book and the situation of isolation in times of pandemic and necropolitical barbarism, proposing readings by Kopenawa, Benjamin and Celan

The role of culture in mental health

Culture teaches us how to suffer and, conversely, how to treat suffering in the collective and individual context of caring for the self, writes psychoanalyst Christian Dunker; read the article

Crown of thorns

Although painful as a thorn in the soul, we go through an experience that can be profoundly transformative.

The Caipirinha and the French: Tarsila do Amaral and the devouring...

Critic Tadeu Chiarelli points out how the Brazilian artist's contact with the French artist's work inspired her production

From Geiger to Sidney Amaral: the self-portrait collapse continues

Brazilian artists represent bodies beyond an "artistic selfie", seeking reflections far from the exploration of bourgeois subjectivity

Bakun and the life of things

On a visit to Miguel Bakun's exhibition at Galeria Simões de Assis, in São Paulo, Tadeu Chiarelli recalls his first contact with the artist's work

The radical resistance in “Fúria” and “Bacurau”

In times of cholera, the dance show and film provide an immersion in new worlds
Lyz Parayzo, work from the "Bixinha" series, 2022. Photo: Filipe Berndt

Concrete, neoconcrete: semantization continues

Tadeu Chiarelli comments on the work of several artists who engaged in dialogues with constructive currents, from Rubem Valentim and Nelson Leirner to Lyz Parayzo and Jaime Lauriano