O artigo sobre 'Mãe Preta', pesquisa e projeto de arte que tomou conta da minha vida e da minha dupla Isabel Löfgren desde 2015 acaba de ser publicado na nova edição do Journal of Mother Studies!
Reproductive Identities & Resistance: Mothers and Others in Culture, Community & Collaboration reúne uma miríade de colaborações e visões sobre um tema seminal para a nossa sociedade e que, finalmente, está ocupando todos os merecidos espaços!
Mais uma vez, agradecemos a todas as parceiras e colaboradoras que tornaram este projeto um sucesso que vem se desdobrando em exposições, publicações e discussões no Brasil e Mundo afora ✊🏻
>>Link para o artigo completo aqui<<
*Treading the Ground Sensibly: Deep memory of Black motherhood and visual repair in Mãe Preta (Isabel Löfgren & Patricia Goùvea)*
This article reflects on Mãe Preta (Eng. Black Mother), a research-based art project on the deep memory of Black motherhood and slavery in Brazil, developed by the authors since 2015. The project grew out of the simultaneous births of their children and their engagement with maternal justice groups and Afro-brazilian activists in Brazil during the Olympic context in Rio de Janeiro. The article describes how the project began at the Instituto de Memória e Pesquisa Pretos Novos, a memorial site that holds the remains of a burial ground for enslaved Africans in Rio de Janeiro’s old port area. Between 2017 and 2021 it travelled to five further sites, from public galleries to a quilombo at the edge of the Amazon. Writing as artist-researchers and mothers and working as an artist duo, the authors describe a methodology that was iterated over time rather than fixed in advance in four different phases: entering the site, lifting voices and narratives, counter-archival gestures, and activating collaborations.
