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Presentation of the book "Latinamerica", by Gabriela Noujaim
23 Mar, 2022
Auditorium 3 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Lisbon, Portugal
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An artist's book resulting from a work developed during the pandemic with women from various regions of Brazil.
Presentation session of the book Latinamerica, 2020, by the Brazilian artist Gabriela Noujaim. The book, a limited edition, contains screen prints in various media and texts. It resulted from a work, started in April 2020, with women from various regions of Brazil and different areas of activity.
About the project, the artist says that “the negative impact of the pandemic on women has become something latent, revealing extremely urgent issues in Latin America, mainly by the precarious conditions of informal jobs – caregivers and domestic workers, for example, besides the increase in violence against women, added to the cases of deaths by the virus among indigenous and other women in vulnerable situations”.
The presentation will be held by Leonor Veiga, curator, researcher, and professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon. During the session the video Mulheres Latinamericas 2020 (3′ 33″), produced in the context of the artist book work, will be screened, a copy of the book will be donated to the Art Library collection.
Book
5 may 2024
This book was created from an artistic residency that Gabriela Noujaim carried out in June 2023 at RAMA — Residências Artísticas da Maceira e Alfeiria. RAMA is a project aimed at national and international artists, researchers and curators, operating in the villages of Maceira and Alfeiria, with the support of Torres Vedras City Council, whose purpose is to promote interaction between professionals and the crossing of artistic practices, the sharing of experiences and knowledge, and the relationship between creators and the local community and territory, the culture, crafts and traditional knowledge, history and landscape of the region.
From this residency Gabriela Noujaim has created a series of works — photographs, installations, and audio — in which she explores some of the themes she has been developing in her work, such as female ancestral heritage and the sacred feminine and the cultures of indigenous Brazilians. In the artist’s words, “Da terra à fonte is a poetic reflection on the relationship between humans, nature and the essential elements of life”.
The book is presented by Gabriela Noujaim, followed by a talk with the artist Paulo Brighenti and Ana Anacleto, coordinator, and curator of RAMA, about the Brazilian artist’s presence at the residency, the work and research process she carried out there, as well as the way she related to the community, the shamans of the villages in the region and the indigenous villages in Rio de Janeiro.
Gabriela Noujaim is one of the artists represented in the Art Library’s collection of artist’s books and independent editions.
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