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WHAT UNITES US? ENGLISH VERSION
EDITORIAL | PAGE 12
WHAT UNITES US?

BY PATRICIA ROUSSEAUX, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
WHEN THE ARGENTINEAN WRITER and educator Domingos Faustino Sarmiento wrote in 1845, Facundo:
Civilización y Barbárie, he tried to portray the Argentine national formation through the relations of the desert man,
“el pampa”, versus the man of the city and the force that the European colonization would have had in the cities.
The existence of two countries, a civilized - white, illustrated, integrated with Europe - and a barbarian - Argentina of
illiteracy, mestizos, isolation, violence: an antithesis that put at stake the possibility of building a body of nation. The
work is considered founder of the Argentinean literature because of the pioneering in breaking with the standards
of the European romanticism.
In 1930, Sigmund Freud published Civilization and Its Discontents. In this key text of his work, Freud (whether one agrees
or disagrees) brings to the surface any illusion about the possibility of men coexisting in peace. Or any theory that,
from a political, economic or sociological point of view, suggests that man can relate to a cordial, supportive meeting
where we would supposedly have access to a higher goal, stopping to behave like animals.
For him, “aggressive instinct is not a consequence of property, it was already almost unrestricted in primitive times,
when property was still little, aggressiveness is already manifested in the child, only property has lost its anal form;
is the sediment of all loving and loving bonds... If all personal rights to possess material goods were eliminated, they
would still be replaced by the privileges derived from sexual relations, which must necessarily become the source
of the most intense envy and the most violent hostility among human beings.” (...) “ It is obviously not easy for
man to renounce the satisfaction of his aggressive tendencies; is not at all comfortable without this satisfaction.”
“On the other hand, a restricted cultural nucleus offers the advantage of allowing the satisfaction of this instinct
through hostility towards subjects that were excluded from that nucleus. It will always be easier for them to bond
more lovingly with each other, provided that there are others on whom they can discharge their punches “(p. 3049,
Sigmund Freud, Complete Works, New Madrid Library, 1981)
Our drive for life and death always beats, but not the same way.
This edition shows, through an exquisite recapitulation of images, archives and works presented by artists,
photographers and thinkers, how in the pass of time we could not leave the place and advance: as the conflicts
between north and south, between classes and geopolitical power are always the service of a mutual subjugation.
The black by the white, the colonized by the colonizer.
And also because, precisely because of this difficulty, art results in a permanent support to work the helplessness.
PS: Good news: two Private Foundations, one that celebrates 45 years and one that inaugurates, expose their
collections to the public! These things brings us together.
COLLABORATORS | PAGE 14
ISSUE 43 JULHO AGOSTO JULY AUGUST 2018 PAGINAB.COM.BR
Leonor Amarante is a journalist, curator and editor. She worked in the newspaper O Estado de S.Paulo, the magazine
Veja, TV Cultura, Memorial of Latin America, collaborated with the World Paper Boston and Radio Rebelde in Cuba.
She won an ABCA Award for the edition of ARTE!Brazileiros (2012), and Cuba’s Ministry of Culture Award (2009)
for her cultural acting in that country.
Fabio Cypriano is an art critic and journalist, currently the coordinator of the Journalism course at PUC-SP and
is part of the editorial board of ARTE!Brasileiros. In this number, he collaborated with critics on the Dias & Riedweg
show, a report on the Louvre Abu Dhabi, a review of the book by Maria Angelica Melendi, among others.
Tania Rivera holds a PhD in Psychology from the Université catholique de Louvain. She is a professor at Fluminense
Federal University and curator of the exhibition Lugares do Delírio, now at Sesc Pompéia. For this issue, Tania
collaborated with an article about the development of the exhibitiom. She is the author of the book Arte e Psicanálise
(Zahar, 2002), among others.
Matheus Moreira is a journalist graduated in Cásper Líbero Foundation. Current reporter of the portal páginaB!,
he has already been through the offices of Nexo Jornal and Revista Fórum. His work focuses mainly on the areas
of culture and human rights. For ARTE! Brasileiros 43, he wrote a profile about the cover artist, Moisés Patrício.
Enelito Cruz is a specialist in Design and Technology. Graduated in Computer Science and Mathematics. With more
than 20 years of experience, he worked as head of art in the magazines of the publishing houses Brasileiros and Istoé.
In this edition, he collaborated with the layout and treatment of images of another ARTE!Brasileiros.
BIENNIALS SÃO PAULO | PAGE 14
WURA-NATASHA OGUNJI, A CURING ARTIST

SHE LIVES IN THE UNITED STATES AND IN NIGERIA, AND WILL “HEAL” THE PROJECT ALWAYS AT SÃO PAULO’S
BIENAL, TO WHICH SHE INVITED FIVE OTHER ARTISTS
BY LEONOR AMARANTE
TO WURA-NATASHA OGUNJI, there is no distance between design and action, nor between thinking and moving,
even if it means traveling continents. Living in Austin and Lagos, the African-American is one of the most active
artists of her generation. She operates simultaneously in several artistic fronts in two countries: the United States
of America and Nigeria. She is part of the movement of the first visual artists generation of the African Diaspora,
who chose to re-position her art in the country of birth of her parents.
Performer, designer and video artist, at age 48, she will be the curator in the project Siempre, Nunca at São Paulo’s
33rd Bienal, which exclusively covers commissioned works. There are six artists invited by her: the South African
Lhola Amira, the French Mame-Diarra Niang, the North American Nicole Vlado, the Nigerian Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze