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In the performance "Rupture," the audience leads a three-act ritual that closes a cycle begun by the artist in her first public performance in 2015, as part of the exhibition "Radical Ideas Of Love" at the Museum of Art of Rio (MAR).
In the first act, the audience offers a collection of pink lipsticks, with which the artist searches for the "perfect lipstick," symbolizing the pursuit of unattainable ideals — a metaphor for life's senseless dreams and goals. In the second act, they watch as the artist tattoos the image of a giant bear on her arm, opposite the apple tattooed in the first "Rupture." The bear represents strength and presence, symbolizing protection and belonging, reinforcing the weight of relationships built over time. In the third act, the audience cuts the artist's hair, ending cycles and creating space for the new in a gesture of rupture and renewal.
In the first act, the audience offers a collection of pink lipsticks, with which the artist searches for the "perfect lipstick," symbolizing the pursuit of unattainable ideals — a metaphor for life's senseless dreams and goals. In the second act, they watch as the artist tattoos the image of a giant bear on her arm, opposite the apple tattooed in the first "Ruptura." The bear represents strength and presence, symbolizing protection and belonging, reinforcing the weight of relationships built over time. In the third act, the audience cuts the artist's hair, ending cycles and creating space for the new in a gesture of rupture and renewal.
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Performance Honra Ao Mérito
Performance Honor to Merit
Honra ao MéritoThe performance emerges as a gesture of reparation and self-worth within the exhibition “Radical Ideas About Love”. By placing women, cis and trans, at the center of an action of recognition, the work reflects the power of self-love and community affection, while questioning the invisibility and historical erasure of these women. -
Radical Ideas About Love: Five O'Clock Tea
Ideias Radicais Sobre O Amor: Chá das Cinco
“Chá das Cinco” (“Five O'clock Tea”) subverts the colonial tea ritual, transforming it into a space of resistance and community reunion. In this work, the act of drinking tea is rethought as a practice of communion and exchange, where visitors from different backgrounds share advice and reflections through notes left under the saucers. Each message becomes a link in a chain of shared knowledge, challenging historical narratives and proposing a different form of dialogue. -
Deriva Afetiva Dakar Exibition
Opening of the exhibition at Instituto Inclusartiz
On August 18, Panmela Castro opened the exhibition Deriva Afetiva Dakar with a collection of works developed during the Black Rock Senegal artistic residency in Dakar, a residency created by the famous Obama portraitist: Kehinde Whiley.
Panmela Castro abriu em 18 de agosto a exposição Deriva Afetiva Dakar com uma coleção de obras desenvolvidas durante a residencia artística Black Rock Senegal em Dakar, residência criada pelo famoso retratista de Obama: Kehinde Whiley.
