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︎ M+B presents BETWEEN RIVERS, WATERFALLS AND THE DEEPEST SEA. OPEN ROADS. with Laís Amaral, Kelton Campos Fausto and Marlon Amaro curated by HOA.
by appointment only
612 North Almont Drive
Los Angeles, California 90069
FROM 24TH APRIL TO 29TH MAY, LOS ANGELES, CA, USA.
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M+B is pleased to present Between Rivers, Waterfalls and the Deepest Sea. Open Roads., a three-person exhibition curated by Igi Ayedun with work by Marlon Amaro, Laís Amaral and Kelton Campos Fausto. The exhibition runs from April 24 - May 29, 2021, with an opening reception on Saturday, April 24 from noon to 6pm. Exhibiting for the first time in the United States, this three-person presentation explores Afro-Brazilian narratives and the complexities of the contemporary Black youth experience in the largest country in Latin America. More than the collective and systemic specificities that are part of their Black identity, the artistic processes behind the works revolve around impressions of individual experiences on social, cultural, intellectual, spiritual and emotional aspects, stitching together the desires of young, black Brazilians today.
︎ M+B presents BETWEEN RIVERS, WATERFALLS AND THE DEEPEST SEA. OPEN ROADS. with Laís Amaral, Kelton Campos Fausto and Marlon Amaro curated by HOA.
by appointment only
612 North Almont Drive
Los Angeles, California 90069
FROM 24TH APRIL TO 29TH MAY, LOS ANGELES, CA, USA.
DOWNLOAD THE PRESS RELEASE
M+B is pleased to present Between Rivers, Waterfalls and the Deepest Sea. Open Roads., a three-person exhibition curated by Igi Ayedun with work by Marlon Amaro, Laís Amaral and Kelton Campos Fausto. The exhibition runs from April 24 - May 29, 2021, with an opening reception on Saturday, April 24 from noon to 6pm. Exhibiting for the first time in the United States, this three-person presentation explores Afro-Brazilian narratives and the complexities of the contemporary Black youth experience in the largest country in Latin America. More than the collective and systemic specificities that are part of their Black identity, the artistic processes behind the works revolve around impressions of individual experiences on social, cultural, intellectual, spiritual and emotional aspects, stitching together the desires of young, black Brazilians today.
- MARLON AMARO, Caronte, 2021, signed, titled and dated versooil, spray and glitter on canvas, 57 x 56 inches (144.8 x 142.2 cm)
ACT 1. THE EQUALITY MYTH (O mito da igualdade), Marlon Amaro
Influenced by urban aesthetics, Marlon Amaro's scenes combine day glow hues with narratives of unsettling racial undertones. His compositions are based on meticulous research of familial photographic archives and personal experiences of racism. Using a mix of techniques including acrylic, spray paint, collage and adhesives, as well as a more traditional painting approach, his depictions often capture private scenes of post-colonial interracial relations, and all of its attendant absurdities.
ABOUT MARLON AMARO
Marlon Amaro (b. 1987, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) graduated from the School of Fine Arts and School of Visual Arts, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro. Amaro's work excavates personal experiences and photo archives, and social standards that perpetuate structural racism. In 2020, Amaro participated in the thematic exhibition, Casa Carioca at the Rio de Janeiro Museum of Art. He also had a solo exhibition, Sísifo, in partnership with HOA Galeria and CC Espaço, Sao Paolo.
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ACT 2. THE STRAW PEOPLE (O povo da palha), Kelton Campos Fausto
Kelton Campos Fausto travels across different dimensions between his ancestry and the dream of the future through the Yorubá teachings inherited by the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé, which reveals the divine worldview as a way of preserving Black essentialism. Fausto's research seeks to connect us with the ritualistic intimacy promulgated by surrendering to the sensibility of the body in different stages of performance. In The Straw People, the artist materializes ritual in image, representing not only the tangibility of the body-guide or Orishas, but also the movements and energies of the Black spiritual existence. With clay on an acrylic base, the earth colors are applied as a document of the origin of humanity, according to Yorubá mythology, and the transmutation of freedom takes on shapes, faces and a sense of strength from the omnipresence of his ancestors.
ABOUT KELTON CAMPOS FAUSTO
Kelton Campos Fausto (b.1996, São Paulo, Brazil) is a non-binary, multidisciplinary artist, resident and founder of Brasilândia, a multidisciplinary platform for the Black and LGBTQIA+ communities of São Paulo. Fausto is interested in the plastic construction of spiritual scenes and cosmological activities that propose living spaces and health possibilities based on other ways of apprehending reality and the body. In 2018, they joined the Ephemeral Art School and Collective AEAN, founded by Igi Ayedun and Lucas Andrade. Fausto explores The Straw People series through painting and performance, with work recently included in the exhibition Curação, curated by Paula Garcia at the São Paulo Cultural Center.
Influenced by urban aesthetics, Marlon Amaro's scenes combine day glow hues with narratives of unsettling racial undertones. His compositions are based on meticulous research of familial photographic archives and personal experiences of racism. Using a mix of techniques including acrylic, spray paint, collage and adhesives, as well as a more traditional painting approach, his depictions often capture private scenes of post-colonial interracial relations, and all of its attendant absurdities.
ABOUT MARLON AMARO
Marlon Amaro (b. 1987, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) graduated from the School of Fine Arts and School of Visual Arts, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro. Amaro's work excavates personal experiences and photo archives, and social standards that perpetuate structural racism. In 2020, Amaro participated in the thematic exhibition, Casa Carioca at the Rio de Janeiro Museum of Art. He also had a solo exhibition, Sísifo, in partnership with HOA Galeria and CC Espaço, Sao Paolo.
- KELTON CAMPOS FAUSTO, Fun Fun, 2021, mixed media on canvas, 64 x 62 inches (162.6 x 157.5 cm)
ACT 2. THE STRAW PEOPLE (O povo da palha), Kelton Campos Fausto
Kelton Campos Fausto travels across different dimensions between his ancestry and the dream of the future through the Yorubá teachings inherited by the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé, which reveals the divine worldview as a way of preserving Black essentialism. Fausto's research seeks to connect us with the ritualistic intimacy promulgated by surrendering to the sensibility of the body in different stages of performance. In The Straw People, the artist materializes ritual in image, representing not only the tangibility of the body-guide or Orishas, but also the movements and energies of the Black spiritual existence. With clay on an acrylic base, the earth colors are applied as a document of the origin of humanity, according to Yorubá mythology, and the transmutation of freedom takes on shapes, faces and a sense of strength from the omnipresence of his ancestors.
ABOUT KELTON CAMPOS FAUSTO
Kelton Campos Fausto (b.1996, São Paulo, Brazil) is a non-binary, multidisciplinary artist, resident and founder of Brasilândia, a multidisciplinary platform for the Black and LGBTQIA+ communities of São Paulo. Fausto is interested in the plastic construction of spiritual scenes and cosmological activities that propose living spaces and health possibilities based on other ways of apprehending reality and the body. In 2018, they joined the Ephemeral Art School and Collective AEAN, founded by Igi Ayedun and Lucas Andrade. Fausto explores The Straw People series through painting and performance, with work recently included in the exhibition Curação, curated by Paula Garcia at the São Paulo Cultural Center.
- LAÍS AMARAL, WET HEAD (UNTITLED), 2021, signed and dated verso, acrylic and oil pastel on canvas,73 x 59 1/2 inches (185.4 x 151.1 cm)
ACT. 3 WET HEAD (Cabeça Molhada), Laís Amaral
In Wet Head, Laís Amaral proposes an attentive look at the abstractions of consciousness. For Amaral, water is a device of freedom that lies in opposition to this aridity of urban life in Rio de Janeiro. This series of paintings is formed from overlaying paint-at times revealing, superimposing or unveiling other possibilities of rhythmic languages through the visible. Artist and craftswoman, Amaral brings the addition of beads to acrylics and oil sticks, creating textures that become enmeshed with the countless lines, marks and scratches that make up the surfaces of her works. The Wet Head series finds pleasure in disobeying and contradicting the expectations of abstraction-through its modularization and brief repetitions, the compositions are a celebration of the trance between resistance and existence.
ABOUT LAÍS AMARAL
Laís Amaral (b.1993, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is an artisan-artist who graduated with a degree in Social Work at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, where she began her research on the effects of environmental collapse on contemporary society in relation to the desertification process, as well as the eugenics project on the Brazilian population. Amaral calls her gestures in painting, "leaking," referencing the movements of nature and attempts to irrigate the ways of existing. She is also the co-founder of Trovoa, a POC women's national collective in Brazil.
Curatorial Team: Igi Lola Ayedun, Lucas Andrade and Tarcisio Almeida (HOA)
Executive Production (Brazil): Lucas Fernandes (HOA)
For inquiries, contact info@mbart.com.
FORTHCOMING
︎ 1-54 and CHRISTIE´S presents KNOTTED TIES curated by 1-54 presenting Igi Lola Ayedun and Lidia Lisbôa.
by appointment only
Christie´s New York
20 Rockefeller Plaza,
New York, NY 10020
FROM 15THMAY, NEW YORK, NY, USA.
In Wet Head, Laís Amaral proposes an attentive look at the abstractions of consciousness. For Amaral, water is a device of freedom that lies in opposition to this aridity of urban life in Rio de Janeiro. This series of paintings is formed from overlaying paint-at times revealing, superimposing or unveiling other possibilities of rhythmic languages through the visible. Artist and craftswoman, Amaral brings the addition of beads to acrylics and oil sticks, creating textures that become enmeshed with the countless lines, marks and scratches that make up the surfaces of her works. The Wet Head series finds pleasure in disobeying and contradicting the expectations of abstraction-through its modularization and brief repetitions, the compositions are a celebration of the trance between resistance and existence.
ABOUT LAÍS AMARAL
Laís Amaral (b.1993, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is an artisan-artist who graduated with a degree in Social Work at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, where she began her research on the effects of environmental collapse on contemporary society in relation to the desertification process, as well as the eugenics project on the Brazilian population. Amaral calls her gestures in painting, "leaking," referencing the movements of nature and attempts to irrigate the ways of existing. She is also the co-founder of Trovoa, a POC women's national collective in Brazil.
Curatorial Team: Igi Lola Ayedun, Lucas Andrade and Tarcisio Almeida (HOA)
Executive Production (Brazil): Lucas Fernandes (HOA)
For inquiries, contact info@mbart.com.
FORTHCOMING
︎ 1-54 and CHRISTIE´S presents KNOTTED TIES curated by 1-54 presenting Igi Lola Ayedun and Lidia Lisbôa.
by appointment only
Christie´s New York
20 Rockefeller Plaza,
New York, NY 10020
FROM 15THMAY, NEW YORK, NY, USA.
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︎ GINGA LIVESTREAMING curated by HOA
25TH MARCH (ONLINE)
18H (BRASILIA TIMEZONE)
REPERTÓRIO N.1 with Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira
The work invests in the idea of dance as a self-defense training, using mimesis and ritualized repetition of gestures to produce a study of choreographed images by dissident bodies, in an attempt to collect actions to elaborate resistances and conjure ways of staying in the world to invent what's comes next. REPERTÓRIO N.1 names our constant challenge of positioning the choreography to respond to its own onto-epistemological conditions, to serve politically in the face of the situations in which it is being practiced (police violence, destruction of nature, endless colonial violence).
REPERTÓRIO N.1 with Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira
O trabalho investe na ideia de dança como treino de autodefesa, utilizando a mimese e a repetição ritualizada de gestos para produzir um estudo sobre imagens coreografadas por corpos dissidentes, em uma tentativa de arquivar ações para elaborar resistências, conjurar modos de permanecer no mundo e inventar o que há de sucedê-lo. Repertório N.1nomeia nosso constante desafio de posicionar a coreografia para responder às suas próprias condições ontoepistemológicas —, atender politicamente diante das condições em que está sendo praticada (violência policial, destruição da natureza, violência colonial sem fim).
ABOUT DAVI PONTES AND WALLACE FERREIRA
Davi Pontes (b.1990) lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. Davi is an artist, researcher and choreographer graduated in Arts from the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), and student in the Postgraduate Program in Arts (Contemporary Studies of the Arts) of the same institution. He studied at ESMAE Superior School of Music and Arts (Porto, Portugal) and Parque Lage School of Visual Arts (EAV, Rio de Janeiro). Among his most recent works, we highlight the trilogy “Repertório” in partnership with the dancer Wallace Ferreira who was at the VERBO Exhibition at Galeria Vermelho, Valongo International Image Festival in São Paulo, Segunda Preta, Belo Horizonte, Anita schwartz art gallery , Rio de Janeiro and scheduled for the Forum of Live Art Amsterdam 2021, Netherlands. The artist has dedicated his practice to positioning the choreography to respond to his own ontoepistemological conditions.
Wallace Ferreira (b.1993) graduated in Dance at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Wallace builds strategies to escape from the meanings, his creations move between dance, theater, performance, the desire for provocation, for the destabilization of bodies, to ruin the codes of representation. Among his most recent works, we highlight the trilogy “Repertório” in partnership with the artist Davi Pontes who was at the VERBO Exhibition of the Vermelho gallery, Valongo International Image Festival in São Paulo, Segunda Preta in Belo Horizonte, ArtRio, Anita schwartz gallery of art, Rio de Janeiro and scheduled for the Forum of Live Art Amsterdam 2021, Netherlands. Driven by the challenges of tensioning the present and conjuring futures.
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sujeito à lotação
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powered by: Becks
︎ HOA BECK’S FREE ART SCHOOL
04TH MARCH (ONLINE)
18H - 19H30 (BRASILIA TIMEZONE)
WHAT IF..? with Jota Mombaça, Kenia Freitas, Diego Paulino and Anti Ribeiro
Where do the possibilities that history discards go? How to access the dreams, images, voices and forces that make up the map of what could have been? In this conversation, Jota Mombaça invites Kenia Freitas, Diego Paulino and Anti Ribeiro to talk about the radical potential of the question 'What if…?', Opening space for considerations about the relationship between memory and fable, and about the politically regulated dimension of what we understand as a possibility.
E se…? Memória, Fabulação e Possibilidade com Jota Mombaça, Kênia Freitas, Diego Paulino e Anti Ribeiro
Para onde vão as possibilidades que a História descarta? Como acessar os sonhos, imagens, vozes e forças que compõem o mapa do que poderia ter sido? Nesta conversa, convido Kênia Freitas, Diego Paulino e Anti Ribeiro a conversar sobre o potencial radical da pergunta ‘E se…?’, abrindo espaço para considerações sobre a relação entre memória e fabulação, e sobre a dimensão politicamente regulada do que compreendemos como possibilidade.
ABOUT JOTA MOMBAÇA
Jota Mombaça is a non-binary bicha, born and raised in the northeast of Brazil, who writes, performs and investigates on the relations between monstrosity and humanity, kuir studies, de-colonial turns, political intersectionality, anti-colonial justice, redistribution of violence, visionary fictions, the end of the world and tensions among ethics, aesthetics, art and politics in the knowledge productions of the global south-of-the-south.
FREE by admission only here
limited places
GRÁTIS apenas sob inscrição prévia aqui
sujeito à lotação
partnership: Artfizz
powered by: Becks
︎ HOA BECK’S FREE ART SCHOOL
22TH-23TH FEBRUARY (ONLINE)
14HRS - 16HRS (BRASILIA TIMEZONE)
VISIONARY FICTION LABORATORY is a platform for sharing and producing knowledge around speculative fictions and their ways of interacting with the present struggles for social justice in Brazil and beyond. In this edition of the Laboratory, we will test ways of extrapolating the captivity of contemporary political imagination to other ways of understanding and experiencing the domains of memory and possibility.
O LABORATÓRIO DE FICÇÃO VISIONÁRIA é uma plataforma para compartilhar e produzir conhecimento em torno das ficções especulativas e suas formas de interagir com as lutas atuais por justiça social no Brasil e no exterior. Nesta edição do Laboratório, testaremos formas de extrapolar o cativeiro da imaginação política contemporânea para outras formas de compreender e vivenciar os domínios da memória e das possibilidades.
FREE by admission only here
GRÁTIS apenas sob inscrição prévia aqui
About JOTA MOMBAÇA
Jota Mombaça is a non-binary bicha, born and raised in the northeast of Brazil, who writes, performs and investigates on the relations between monstrosity and humanity, kuir studies, de-colonial turns, political intersectionality, anti-colonial justice, redistribution of violence, visionary fictions, the end of the world and tensions among ethics, aesthetics, art and politics in the knowledge productions of the global south-of-the-south.
partnership: Artfizz
powered by: Becks
︎ GINGA LIVESTREAMING curated by HOA
25TH MARCH (ONLINE)
18H (BRASILIA TIMEZONE)
REPERTÓRIO N.1 with Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira
The work invests in the idea of dance as a self-defense training, using mimesis and ritualized repetition of gestures to produce a study of choreographed images by dissident bodies, in an attempt to collect actions to elaborate resistances and conjure ways of staying in the world to invent what's comes next. REPERTÓRIO N.1 names our constant challenge of positioning the choreography to respond to its own onto-epistemological conditions, to serve politically in the face of the situations in which it is being practiced (police violence, destruction of nature, endless colonial violence).
REPERTÓRIO N.1 with Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira
O trabalho investe na ideia de dança como treino de autodefesa, utilizando a mimese e a repetição ritualizada de gestos para produzir um estudo sobre imagens coreografadas por corpos dissidentes, em uma tentativa de arquivar ações para elaborar resistências, conjurar modos de permanecer no mundo e inventar o que há de sucedê-lo. Repertório N.1nomeia nosso constante desafio de posicionar a coreografia para responder às suas próprias condições ontoepistemológicas —, atender politicamente diante das condições em que está sendo praticada (violência policial, destruição da natureza, violência colonial sem fim).
ABOUT DAVI PONTES AND WALLACE FERREIRA
Davi Pontes (b.1990) lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. Davi is an artist, researcher and choreographer graduated in Arts from the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), and student in the Postgraduate Program in Arts (Contemporary Studies of the Arts) of the same institution. He studied at ESMAE Superior School of Music and Arts (Porto, Portugal) and Parque Lage School of Visual Arts (EAV, Rio de Janeiro). Among his most recent works, we highlight the trilogy “Repertório” in partnership with the dancer Wallace Ferreira who was at the VERBO Exhibition at Galeria Vermelho, Valongo International Image Festival in São Paulo, Segunda Preta, Belo Horizonte, Anita schwartz art gallery , Rio de Janeiro and scheduled for the Forum of Live Art Amsterdam 2021, Netherlands. The artist has dedicated his practice to positioning the choreography to respond to his own ontoepistemological conditions.
Wallace Ferreira (b.1993) graduated in Dance at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Wallace builds strategies to escape from the meanings, his creations move between dance, theater, performance, the desire for provocation, for the destabilization of bodies, to ruin the codes of representation. Among his most recent works, we highlight the trilogy “Repertório” in partnership with the artist Davi Pontes who was at the VERBO Exhibition of the Vermelho gallery, Valongo International Image Festival in São Paulo, Segunda Preta in Belo Horizonte, ArtRio, Anita schwartz gallery of art, Rio de Janeiro and scheduled for the Forum of Live Art Amsterdam 2021, Netherlands. Driven by the challenges of tensioning the present and conjuring futures.
FREE
limited places
JOIN HERE
GRÁTIS
sujeito à lotação
PARTICIPE AQUI
partnership: Artfizz
powered by: Becks
︎ HOA BECK’S FREE ART SCHOOL
04TH MARCH (ONLINE)
18H - 19H30 (BRASILIA TIMEZONE)
WHAT IF..? with Jota Mombaça, Kenia Freitas, Diego Paulino and Anti Ribeiro
Where do the possibilities that history discards go? How to access the dreams, images, voices and forces that make up the map of what could have been? In this conversation, Jota Mombaça invites Kenia Freitas, Diego Paulino and Anti Ribeiro to talk about the radical potential of the question 'What if…?', Opening space for considerations about the relationship between memory and fable, and about the politically regulated dimension of what we understand as a possibility.
E se…? Memória, Fabulação e Possibilidade com Jota Mombaça, Kênia Freitas, Diego Paulino e Anti Ribeiro
Para onde vão as possibilidades que a História descarta? Como acessar os sonhos, imagens, vozes e forças que compõem o mapa do que poderia ter sido? Nesta conversa, convido Kênia Freitas, Diego Paulino e Anti Ribeiro a conversar sobre o potencial radical da pergunta ‘E se…?’, abrindo espaço para considerações sobre a relação entre memória e fabulação, e sobre a dimensão politicamente regulada do que compreendemos como possibilidade.
ABOUT JOTA MOMBAÇA
Jota Mombaça is a non-binary bicha, born and raised in the northeast of Brazil, who writes, performs and investigates on the relations between monstrosity and humanity, kuir studies, de-colonial turns, political intersectionality, anti-colonial justice, redistribution of violence, visionary fictions, the end of the world and tensions among ethics, aesthetics, art and politics in the knowledge productions of the global south-of-the-south.
FREE by admission only here
limited places
GRÁTIS apenas sob inscrição prévia aqui
sujeito à lotação
partnership: Artfizz
powered by: Becks
︎ HOA BECK’S FREE ART SCHOOL
22TH-23TH FEBRUARY (ONLINE)
14HRS - 16HRS (BRASILIA TIMEZONE)
VISIONARY FICTION LABORATORY is a platform for sharing and producing knowledge around speculative fictions and their ways of interacting with the present struggles for social justice in Brazil and beyond. In this edition of the Laboratory, we will test ways of extrapolating the captivity of contemporary political imagination to other ways of understanding and experiencing the domains of memory and possibility.
O LABORATÓRIO DE FICÇÃO VISIONÁRIA é uma plataforma para compartilhar e produzir conhecimento em torno das ficções especulativas e suas formas de interagir com as lutas atuais por justiça social no Brasil e no exterior. Nesta edição do Laboratório, testaremos formas de extrapolar o cativeiro da imaginação política contemporânea para outras formas de compreender e vivenciar os domínios da memória e das possibilidades.
FREE by admission only here
GRÁTIS apenas sob inscrição prévia aqui
About JOTA MOMBAÇA
Jota Mombaça is a non-binary bicha, born and raised in the northeast of Brazil, who writes, performs and investigates on the relations between monstrosity and humanity, kuir studies, de-colonial turns, political intersectionality, anti-colonial justice, redistribution of violence, visionary fictions, the end of the world and tensions among ethics, aesthetics, art and politics in the knowledge productions of the global south-of-the-south.
partnership: Artfizz
powered by: Becks
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