Remember when we talked about meeting again

Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro (Vitória, 1996) returns to the US for her third project, now in a solo show at Mendes Wood DM, in New York City. Entitled Remember when we talked about meeting again —as both the start of a conversation and an essential prophecy—, the show gathers works in different media and a new site-specific installation under an atmosphere that articulates intangible mysteries and radical materialities to approach themes of energy fluxes, metamorphosis, and a myriad of transformative encounters.

Brasileiro’s work intertwines spiritual visions associated with the Candomblé; cultural and linguistic studies of the Bantu traditions and the African diaspora; speculative astrophysics; and her practice as a clinical psychologist.

In the video and photo performances, her body appears in different stages and scenarios, but always engaged in deep vital processes. The series of paintings presented are imbued in an uncanny language, formed by the combination of words and characters from Portuguese, Spanish, and Kimbundu, as well as symbols from Afro-brazilian matrices and experimental graphism. Amidst the paintings, an installation conceived specially for the show creates a path of earth serpentining through standing banners.

According to Germano Dash: “From spiritual sublimations to the transfiguration of the flesh, the ontology that rises from Brasileiro’s works suggests the annunciation of a new language, one capable of invoking new understanding for the cycle of life, the human condition, the agency of the inhumane, and the powers from way beyond this world, all that can be summoned upon the right intention for true union”.

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