Black Brazilian singers and artists are “finally” talking about love and affection in their music and work — in addition to stereotypes, masculinity, patriarchy, racism and censorship. With the continuous breaking down of barriers, combined with recent access to power and the market, and above all, narratives of protagonists and valorisation, more people can be…
Just a couple of days ago, I was fortunate enough to lock into an email exchange with an emerging Brazilian stylist and model — Juliana Santos — all the way from São Paulo, Brazil. Juliana is a 25 year old Black, Brazilian femme who studied fashion at Senac, an esteemed institution — after graduating…
From the most traditional to the most current, modern and complex, Brazilian art is made up of various names. There are those in museums like the Moma and the Tate to those exhibiting in fairs or small galleries around the world. Art is vast and it only takes a few words to make it recognisable…
Brazil has always been and always will be surrounded by music. It is a great musical reference, through references, inspirations and mainly because of its contagious rhythm. Brazilian songs have the incredible power to stay in your head for days – believe me – but also to improve everything around you. A strong sun and…
From the northern hemisphere to the south, we all love stories, it is a part of our essence. Stories are the source for our need to know, to discover, to explore. Thinking about the lockdown we experienced in 2020 and the one we are still within this year, most of our time was spent with…
If we think of United States narratives of alien invasions, we could — with some imaginative effort — easily align a white and western dystopia with various fragments of the African diaspora. From violent domination, imposed languages and other elements involved in the colonising process. If the central dystopia in the imaginary of a country…
There are many ways to think about the body. When poet, artist and curator Anaïs Duplan speaks of ‘cosmic bodies’ he is advancing a unique turn. This cosmic corporality provides insight into how we might approach the body as an architecture….The body is an idea that is cosmic, which is to say, ‘inconceivably vast.’ Body: it is a…
Everyone knows that the most inspiring moment of any sports movie is when the protagonist and their team is down, with only one dreaded final minute to save the game they’ve been training the whole movie for. The tense cuts between different players’ faces, the scoreboard and the descending timer are the makings of so…
Sunday March 4, 2012. During the now extinct program Esquenta—which ran on the Brazilian Broadcast TV channel Rede Globo—presenter Regina Casé talks about tecnobrega. A Brazilian rhythm born in the northeastern region, more specifically in Belém do Pará and spread becoming popular throughout the country. Musical group Banda UÓ, which was famous at the time…
There is no doubt that the world today has many urgencies, one just needs to open a news site or read a newspaper for this to become evident. From the most daring reads—the trend topics on twitter every day; it’s easy to see what the causes of our essential and structured problems are. Perhaps, you…
Urias is the Uberlândia born Brazilian transgender artist gaining an enormous following from her fellow LGBTQI+ community members and it is not hard to see why. With her uncompromising, grungy cyber futurist aesthetic as well as her husky and hypnotic voice it’s practically impossible to not be drawn to the rising artist. Now pursuing a…
Born in Totó a neighbourhood of Recife in Brazil, visual artist Samuel de Saboia began his creative journey at the tender age of 13. By 15 he attended an Architecture and Urbanism course that he left prematurely to pursue graphic design. Shortly before completing his graphic design course he decided to venture into the world…
