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non-indigenous Brazilian transvestite bus heading to Central do Brasil. The Spanish conquistador, as a translator and
(Xica Manicongo, in the 16th century), police took her to an emergency room, lover. Considered a traitor by her people,
the 35th Bienal de São Paulo has almost from where she was sent to the Pedro ii Malinche and the dual role she played
10% of its roster of artists made up of the Psychiatric Center, in Engenho de Dentro. make her one of the most controversial
so-called sexual dissidents. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, she was characters in Mexican culture to date.
The exhibition proposes to present involuntarily institutionalized for the rest The duo Cabello and Carceller, formed
dozens of works, pieces, representations of her life. by Parisian Helena Cabello, 60, and Ana
and installations that seek the historical From this historical “building”, Carceller, 61, works at the intersection
presence, the conceptual debate and comes to settle the representation of photography, film, video, installations
the queer protagonism in contemporary that introduces the emergence and and performance, exploring issues of
times, basing its new edition, which assertiveness of the brand new trans gender and sexuality, power and politics.
begins on September 6, on the trinomial artists, like Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, Balinese artist Citra Sasmita, 33, works to
female body, gender and blackness in a also a writer and psychologist, only 27 unveil prejudices and social hierarchies
radical way, in addition to intensifying the years old, who was born in a quilombo, surrounding women and female
dialogue with the production of native Morro da Fonte Grande, graduated from myths in Balinese culture. Moroccan
peoples. Entitled Choreographies of the the Federal University of Espírito Santo choreographer Bouchra Ouizgen, 43,
impossible, the 35th Bienal will feature and completed a master’s degree in the whose company is made up only of
works by 119 artists, selected by the Clinical Psychology program at puc women, dancers and singers from the
curatorial collective formed by Diane São Paulo. She studies African-based Aïta tradition (of Moroccan cabarets),
Lima, Grada Kilomba, Hélio Menezes spiritualities and seeks to emphasize, sees the feminine in a context between
and Manuel Borja-Villel. in her work, ancestral culture from a the experimental and the traditional.
Three pioneering representations of decolonial perspective. New York-based Guadalupe Maravilla,
black women are based on historical Tadáskia, a 30-year-old artist from 47, brings installations to the Bienal that
evocation, with Xica Manicongo (died Rio de Janeiro, who deals with drawing, seek to link art and healing. Recovering
in 1591), Aurora Cursino dos Santos photography, installation and textile from a rare type of cancer, Guadalupe
(1896-1959) and Stella do Patrocínio languages, and Ventura Fortuna, also presents sculptures from a deep research
(1941-1992). Black women of the past, who 30, a visual artist, performer, singer, into her ancestral Mayan culture, objects
experienced the violence of exclusion writer and transgender composer from that make up complex indigenous
and prejudice in its cruelest form. Catu, in the interior of Bahia (she is also a narratives with a spiritual background.
Xica Manicongo was an enslaved missionary pastor and evangelist singer), Maravilla arrived in the United States
person who lived in Salvador, Bahia, which brings the debate alive on the by crossing the Mexican border with
and worked as a shoemaker in Cidade influence of neo-Pentecostal churches “coyotes”, fleeing a civil war. Without
Baixa, according to official Portuguese in everyday life. documents, he inverted the axiom of
documents. Accused of belonging to In the field of dance, researcher immigrant destiny: he became a master
a “gang of sodomite sorcerers”, Xica and choreographer Inaicyra Falcão of arts at Hunter College, professor at
was condemned by the Holy Office to dos Santos, 68, promotes a rescue of Virginia Commonwealth University and is a
be burned alive in a public square and dances from Yoruba cultures. “Our past, frequent presence in exhibitions at Moma
have her descendants disgraced up to interspersed with so many diasporas, calls and the Brooklyn Museum, two of the most
the third generation. Like Galileo, she for other ways of narrating our stories,” important in New York. He abandoned his
was forced to deny her trans status and says Inaicyra. “Articulating worlds is an old civil name, Irvin Morázan, and adopted
dress and behave like a man of the time ethical, aesthetic and radical gesture”. his father’s pseudonym.
in order to survive. Daughter of Mestre Didi (1917-2013), Among the names that support the
The painter Aurora Cursino dos Santos legendary writer, artist and priest, and historical conceptualization, there are
(1896-1959) worked as a prostitute and granddaughter of Mãe Senhora, Ialorixá several key figures. This is the case of
spent 15 years in the Juquery Psychiatric of candomblé, Inaicyra is a lyrical singer, one of the most prominent leaders of
Complex, in São Paulo. In this asylum, doctor and researcher of Afro-Brazilian the struggle for civil rights in Chicago,
she was subjected to electroshocking, traditions in education and performing in the United States (land from which
shortly before her death, in 1955, she arts, working at Unicamp. Barack Obama emerged): the poet, writer,
was lobotomized. Her refuge from dj, percussionist and producer Marta educator and doctor Margaret Taylor
psychiatric hell was art. She painted Supernova, 29 years old (partner of global Goss Burroughs (1917-2011) created
around 200 paintings, now recognized actress Bruna Linzmeyer), positions African-American institutions, crucial
as a treasure of painting and already herself as an artist with interests focused to the affirmative struggle, in addition
exhibited in exhibitions at the São Paulo on “communities of black descent, Afro- to writing books of referential poems,
Museum of Art (Masp), at the Bienal de Amerindians, Ameafricans, Afro-Latins, such as the celebrated What shall I tell
São Paulo itself and at the Bienal de lgbtqiap+” and celebratory strategies. my children who are black?
Berlin, Germany. Malu Avelar, from Minas Gerais, installs Daughter of Mexicans, the American
Stella do Patrocínio (1941-1992) was a her Lesbian Sauna at the biennial, a work feminist, lesbian, activist and writer
poet from Rio de Janeiro who worked as a already renowned throughout the country. Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004) was born
maid and, when she died, was buried as a Among other even more remote in Raymondville, Texas, and was an
homeless person. Her saga is amazing: at characters in this reconstitution of intellectual who sought to elaborate in her
the age of 21, when she lived in Botafogo, historical oppression is La Malinche work the condition of a frontier woman,
Rio de Janeiro, she was approached (1406-1529), the Nahua indigenous slave of facing the condition subordination
by a police car when trying to board a who served Cortés, the bloodthirsty imposed on immigrants. Her work
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