editorial

When Project Afro launched its platform in June 2020, we were able to identify 135 Black artists, an expressive number at the time – a realization that informed this writing introducing readers to the process of creating the platform. Four years have passed and I have accumulated different experiences, including serving as the curator for […]

We have witnessed an increase in recent years in research that has relied on mapping as a tool to understand the broader landscape of the Arts and its reach in different parts of Brazil. As part of this trend, Project Afro envisions surveying as both an action and a result. As such, it yields critical […]

There is a need in Brazil to intensify the conversation about curatorship in relation to its formation, consolidation, and definition. We lack a clear picture with regard to who are the people working in the field, information that is crucial for rethinking the Arts, its spaces and makers. We must come to an understanding of […]

Initial inspiration for Negrestudo (@negres.tudo) Many debates around racial struggles have surfaced in the past two months, whether due to police violence, the abysmal difference in Covid-19 mortality rates between Black and non-Black people, or the subsequent visibility gained by Black public figures speaking on Blackness, after the internet was overtaken by self-proclaimed anti-racist movements. […]

“It is not easy to be an artist, let alone a Black one.” Spoken during an interview to the project AfroTranscendence in 2016, these words from artist Sidney Amaral (São Paulo, SP, 1973-2017) have stayed with me. Since 2017, the year in which I enrolled at the Universidade de São Paulo’s Culture, Education, Race, And […]