Escrito no Corpo: Carpintaria
Past exhibition
Works
Overview
A group exhibition curated by Keyna Eleison and Victor Gorgulho proposes to sew together the works of young and established artists in dialogue with the collection of the Teatro Experimental do Negro (TEN), founded and directed by Abdias Nascimento.
The narrativity of the body reappears in the paintings of Panmela Castro. Her works, from the series Vigília, are intimate portraits of people close to the artist who agreed to accompany her during a night of the pandemic period.
For the exhibition curators, "Escrito no Corpo" (Written on the Body) chooses part of the company's photographic collection as a starting point and inflection to discuss issues related to race, identity and body. Would it be possible, therefore, to think of theater based on traditional Black dynamics and practices? And art? Doing together, in collectivity, is of Black character. This proposed pagode - an epistemological union of body knowledge for enjoyment together - brings the conversation from Abdias and TEN's images and ideas and gives us support to think about art and today's artists. If racist construction tore the world in two chapters, let us seek possible sutures for writing history and stories. Other narratives, inhabited by unsuspected winners, deposed emperors and disfigured busts. Invoking Audre Lorde's text, we evoke the body and the thinking of each person here present with their work, thought and making. This exhibition speaks of a possible art, which was only possible through languages, ethics and aesthetics that walk on the line of abundance. See that we are here. Doing and being art.