Talks

Brazil: Show Your Face

Utopia Island flag, a flag half in red and half in white with a pale blue banner and a assault rilfe in front of a tree with "no peace without social justice" written in Portuguese

Utopia Island, Paulo Nazareth. PNAC-LTDA_Mendes Wood DM Gallery.

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Talks

Brazil: Show Your Face

Thursday, July 14, 1 pm
Zoom
Brazil: Show Your Face

Join AGO Assistant Curator, Canadian Art, Renata Azevedo Moreira for a conversation with artists Paulo Nazareth, Lyz Parayzo, and muSa Michelle Mattiuzzi, about the role of political art and resistance in contemporary Brazil. Leading up to the presidential elections in October, this panel will consider the impacts of Brazil’s current far-right government on the country’s arts and culture sector: How have contemporary art practices responded to the general dismantlement of which they are also a major target? How has the national and international political climate impacted artists based inside and outside of Brazil? And most importantly: where may Brazilians build up hope from?

The conversation will be held in Portuguese with simultaneous interpretation into English.

Old man born in the city of Borun Nak [Vale do Rio Doce] Minas Gerais, and living as a global nomad, Paulo Nazareth's work is often the result of precise and simple gestures, which bring about broader ramifications, raising awareness to press issues of immigration, racialization, globalization colonialism, and its effects in the production and consumption of art in his native Brazil and the Global South. While his work may manifest in video, photography, and found objects, his strongest medium may be cultivating relationships with people he encounters on the road — particularly those who must remain invisible due to their legal status or those who are repressed by governmental authorities. In certain aspects, Nazareth deliberately embodies the romantic ideal of the wandering artist in search of himself and universal truths, to unveil stereotyped assumptions about national identity, cultural history, and human value.

muSa Michelle Mattiuzzi is an undisciplined artist whose research and practice unfold in works that transit through different means of expression, from performance to writing, from photography to films. Colonial violence is a constant theme of muSa’s poetic investigation and her works appropriate and subvert the exotic place attributed to Black women's bodies by the white-cis-normative imagery narratives, which transform her image into some sort of aberration, an entity split between the wonderful and the abject. muSa is currently interested in Black radical thought and in the study of the works of philosopher Denise Ferreira da Silva and cultural theorist Fred Moten.

Lyz Parayzo is a Brazilian sculptor and researcher who also works with performance, jewelry, and audiovisual. She has a degree in scenic arts from the Federal University of the state of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) and a degree in visual arts from the School of Visual Arts at Parque Lage. She holds a master's degree from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. Her sculptures are part of the collections of the Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP), Pinacoteca do Estado d São Paulo, Casa de Cultura da América Latina (UNB) and Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Niterói (MAC).

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