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AS* PAPANGUS Exhibition
April 30, 2022 - May 27, 2022
Exhibition opening + introduction by Bruna Amaro on April 30.4.2022, 18 from 00:20 p.m. to 00:XNUMX p.m
After that (from May 1.5st – May 27.5.2022th, 12) daily from 00:20 p.m. – 00:XNUMX p.m
The exhibition will be a place to commemorate and honor women* whose daily life is a struggle against pervasive femicide and structural oppression. The celebration of their survival is presented in a multimedia format: installation of the dresses and masks worn by the women* in the streets of São Paulo and Berlin-Neukölln, as well as the video documentation of the carnival performance in São Paulo.
In this participatory project, a series of performance workshops laid the foundation for the following actions, in which the artist and the participants developed movements and statements for their street performance together. Handcrafted by Bruna Amaro and seamstress Eliana Amaro dos Santos, the costumes are embroidered with phrases expressing experiences of survival, transformation and labour.
AS* PAPANGUS critically engages with the colonial matrix of carnival, paying attention to the oppressive gaze and exploitation of queer bodies, women* bodies, people of color, people with disabilities and bodies subjected to structural oppression , not allowed.
AS* PAPANGUS opens the first chapter of Oyoun's curatorial focus mightier than a trampled flower, which focuses on the lives of women* at war from a decolonial context and deconstructs the canonical narratives of women* at war.
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AS* PAPANGUS is a carnival for, by and with women* that does not objectify marginalized bodies. In AS* PAPANGUS, the Afro-Brazilian artist Bruna Amaro stages a carnival in its most queer-feminist and decolonial form with more than 50 women* in São Paulo and Berlin.
All events in the AS*PAPANGUS series can be found here.
AS* PAPANGUS is funded by the Goethe-Institut São Paulo.
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