On Friday, February 26, Moisés Patrício will present his lecture, "Do YOU Accept It?". This lecture is the sixth installment of the Afro-Brazilian Arts and Activism Lecture Series by CLAS. The event is FREE and open to the public!
Visual artist and art educator, Moisés Patrício, was born in 1984 in São Paulo, where he lives and works. With a degree from the School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo (ECA-USP), he uses photography, video, performance, and installations in works that deal with the sacred elements of Amerindian and Afro-Brazilian culture. A significant feature of his work is his allusion to Candomblé, for whom the sacred passes through the body and its manual possibilities. Exhibitions he has participated in include: Dakar Biennial at the Museum of African Arts (Senegal, 2016), "A Nova Mão Afro Brasileira" Museu Afro Brasil (São Paulo, 2014), and "Papel de Seda" at the Pretos Novos Institute for Research and Memory (Rio de Janeiro, 2014). In the exhibition "Negros Indícios" (São Paulo, 2017), Patrício presented his performance Padê de Exu libertador (2017) from the poem of the same name by Abdias Nascimento (1914-2011). At the Tomie Ohtake Institute, he took part in "OSSO Exposição-apelo ao amplo direito de defesa de Rafael Braga" (São Paulo, 2017). In 2020, Patrício inaugurated the Diáspora Galeria of Casa PretaHub (São Paulo) with the exhibit ´É Preciso Estar Presente and the Botão Vermelho project to aid inhabitants pf neighborhoods in São Paulo (Jardim Elba, Vila Industrial and Favela do Mangue) rendered increasingly vulnerable by the social inequalities exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
"I was born in the same period the Internet emerged in Brazil. My skills with social media became amplified by a historical need to be heard, seen, recognized, and valued as a citizen. My ancestors and I come from a history of devaluation and subtraction of Black values, knowledge, and creations. Social media allows me to break with this depraved cycle of our society." Moisés Patrício
Friday, February 26, 2021
11:10 AM - 12:30 PM (horário Brasília 13:10-14:30)
Zoom Link: go.osu.edu/CLASAfroBrazil
Meeting ID: 940 5025 4422
Password: 183273
"Due to its conceptual density and artistic significance, the political art of Moisés Patrício is emblematic of the art of the Afro-Brazilian generation of the first decades of this new millennium. The work of Patrício and his contemporaries represent strategies of reflection upon, and denunciation of increasing violence and discrimination. Moisés Patrício's art integrates a poetics that connects the corporeal gesture of displacement with interventions of occupying and gathering rejected urban objects and spaces in São Paulo. The physical and sensorial experience of being present, confronting ethnic-spatial segregations, and suggesting new meanings in shared and elaborated on social media. Patrício's art projects include, among others, his participation in collective occupations of abandoned factories organized by the MAOU (Artistic Movement of Urban Occupation), political actions of infiltrating symbolically banned elite art spaces organized by the artist collective Presença Negra (Black Presence), and the photo-performances of his virtual exhibit Aceita? (Do you accept it?) displayed on Instagram. The artivist projects of Patrício are representative of a contemporary artistic approach of bringing Black bodies to the visual sphere of contested territories, re-inscribing a corporeality perceived as disruptive, and challenging and re-signifying racist conventions of social interaction in Brazilian metropolitan centers." Isis Barra Costa
*If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Isis Barra Costa at barracosta.1@osu.edu. Requests made one week in advance of the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.*
