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PTCharlene Bicalho is a Brazilian interdisciplinary artist, cultural manager, and independent curator who uses photography, video, performance, and installations in works that reflect her interest in the legacy of expressions of popular culture and traditional Brazilian communities, while reflecting on processes of the decolonization of black women. Born in 1982, she is now based primarily in the city of São Paulo, where she creates projects in various spaces. Of particular note is her work since 2012 as artistic director for the Raiz Forte project. She has been an active participant in several artist residencies.
Charlene Bicalho
Performance piece “From dust is made vine” by Charlene Bicalho. Photo: Pedro H Ermida Cruz.
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Installation View
Mercosul Biennial
The 11th edition of the Mercosul Visual Arts Biennial focuses on the Atlantic Triangle.
Inside the Library
The Black Library, Cuajinicuilapa, Mexico
A look into libraries and book collections holding some of the rarer and often forgotten publications. Featured this time: The Black Library in Mexico
“Manglaria: raíces y sujeciones”
Reimagining the Colombian Pacific
The exhibition brings together diverse perspectives on the territory and the Afro and indigenous representations in Colombia.
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Exhibitions
Paulo Nazareth: Nosotros los otros
Mendes Wood DM
New York, United States
06 May - 10 June 2022
Exhibitions
Magliani
Fundação Iberê Camargo
Porto Alegre, Brazil
19 March - 31 July 2022
Exhibitions
Água Banta
Memorial Municipal Getúlio Vargas
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
07 May - 19 June 2022
Exhibitions
Un lugar secreto, sombras en el bosque
Museo de Arte Afroamericano Venezuela
Caracas, Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
19 March - 22 May 2022
Exhibitions
Aquí me quedo / Here I Stay
Institute for Contemporary Art
Richmond (VA), United States
06 May - 19 June 2022
Talks / Workshops
Negras imagens
Instituto Moreira Salles (online)
São Paulo, Brazil
17 May - 07 June 2022
Exhibitions
Encantadas
Schwules Museum
Berlin, Germany
11 March - 18 July 2022
Exhibitions
Espiral para sueños compartidos
Museo Universitario del Chopo
Ciudad de México, Mexico
29 January - 26 June 2022
Exhibitions
Primer junte de mujeres artistas afrodescendientes en Carolina
Museo Casa Escuté
Carolina, Puerto Rico
30 April - 14 May 2022
Exhibitions
Eu sei por que o pássaro canta na gaiola
Simões de Assis
São Paulo, Brazil
31 March - 21 May 2022
Exhibitions
Ayrson Heráclito: Yorùbáiano
Pinacoteca de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
02 April - 22 August 2022
Festivals
FLAWA: Festival of Latin American Women in the Arts
London, United Kingdom
05 May - 14 May 2022
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Installation View
Mercosul Biennial
The 11th edition of the Mercosul Visual Arts Biennial focuses on the Atlantic Triangle.
Inside the Library
The Black Library, Cuajinicuilapa, Mexico
A look into libraries and book collections holding some of the rarer and often forgotten publications. Featured this time: The Black Library in Mexico
“Manglaria: raíces y sujeciones”
Reimagining the Colombian Pacific
The exhibition brings together diverse perspectives on the territory and the Afro and indigenous representations in Colombia.
Installation View
The Jumbee Sea
The exhibition The Jumbee Sea contests colonial histories by reconfiguring collective memories from Saint Martin Island and the West Indies.
Make Techno Black Again
The Exhibition TECHNO Reveals Institutional Blind Spots
Art historian Jamila Moroder argues that an exhibition in Bolzano, Italy, disconnects techno from its Black heritage, and suggests we take a more complex view.
In Conversation with Tiago Sant'Ana
"The Naturalization of Whiteness as a Life Parameter"
Artist and researcher uses materials such as sugar to discuss the naturalization and erasure of a colonial past.
The Politics of Textile Art
The Unexpected Power of Threads
Two recent books focus on artists using textiles as a way of traversing politics and creating meaning.
Paulo Nazareth at the ICA Miami
Dismantling colonial power
The Brazilian artist offers a journey to understand the oppressive, exploitative nature of colonial history in his country.
Exhibition
Take Me to the River
A multimedia exhibition by the Goethe-Institut and the Prince Claus Fund Art and culture responds to the climate crisis.