I’m an artist from Brazil, based in Sweden. I work with specific focus on the development of curatorial strategies as means for furthering decolonial dialogue - an orientation informing both my artistic practice and pedagogical work.
Coffee break during Setting the Table (2018), an exhibition-in-the-making organised by Jason E. Bowman. BALTIC 39, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Photo: Justin O'Shaughnessy.
More recently I’ve started to investigate how decolonial practice may find potential social impact in curating and organizational modes. For example - within public art schemes - commissioning strategies that are led by civil society groups or communities may prove to expose, experiment and embed ideas on pluriversality, agency building, community governance, shared authorship and belonging that could be interrogated as a form or catalyst for future decolonial practices.
I hold a MFA from HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg (SE) where I currently teach the courses: Commissioning and Curating Contemporary Public Art; Art, Pedagogy and Social Actions; and Decoloniality and Contemporary Arts and Films, also contributing regularly to bachelor and master in fine art programmes at the academy.
Among other projects, I have curated a series of seminars fostering discussions on hospitality practices, diversity and migration knowledge and politics: Practices and Notions of the Migrant Image (2015); On Afrophobia: Towards Decolonial Curatorial Approaches (2016); and worked as art educator with focus on public programming for Wheredoiendandyoubegin – On Secularity, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (2017). I have also co-organised the exhibition Setting the Table at Baltic 39 (April, 2018) as part of coordination of research project Stretched – Expanding Notions of Artistic Practices through Artist-led Cultures (2015-2019) led by artist Jason E. Bowman.
I’m a member of the collective Afterworks (with artists Andreas Engman and Rose Borthwick) that, through hosting, food and discussion, aims to address normative historic structures and to rethink and reframe approaches to being together via specifically framed encounters. I’ve have also co-founded and collaborate regularly with the group Public* Display* of Actions* aka P*D*A*, an anti-fascist platform using performance and speech tactics from street and guerilla theater, agitprop, Speakers' Corners, and political assemblies, to initiate contexts for collective experience, demonstration, and dialogue insisting on vigilance and direct process as a dramaturgical method and approach.
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