Ayrson Heráclito
Subtitle: Yorùbáiano
By: curadoria, Marcelo Campos e Amanda Bonan, com a colaboração de Ana Maria Maio ; edição, Leila Graziela Costa Oliveira
Contributors: São Paulo (Brazil : State). Pinacoteca do Estado
Series: Pina_
Publisher: Pinacoteca de São Paulo
Published: 2022
Place of publication: São Paulo
Language: por
Number of pages: 125
ISBN-13: 9786589070146
Subjects: Exhibitions; Arts and history; Postcolonialism and the arts; History
Other titles: Yorùbáiano
Description: Ayrson Heraclito (Macaubas, 1968) operates at the crossroads between university teaching, visual arts. and acting as a ogã at a Jeje-Mahi candomble house. Working with materials such as: palm oil, jerked beef and sugar, he promotes a visibilitg scheme that respects the sacred while creating a poetics that does not separate between art and religions. Showing 63 works in photography, sculpture, installation. video, and performance, Ayrson Heráclito: Yorùbáiano brings a significant port of the artistœs production since 1994. Ayrson Heráclito presents the stories of several afro-diasporic deities and addresses the historical wounds of a country marked by a kind of violence that has generated social and racial inequalities. He thereby proposes healing covenants in order to try to overcome the wounds left over by colonialism.

Ayrson Heraclito (Macaubas, 1968) operates at the crossroads between university teaching, visual arts. and acting as a ogã at a Jeje-Mahi candomble house. Working  with materials such as: palm oil, jerked beef and sugar, he promotes a visibilitg scheme that respects the sacred while creating a poetics that does not separate between art and religions. Showing 63 works in photography, sculpture, installation. video, and performance, Ayrson Heráclito: Yorùbáiano brings a significant port of the artistœs production since 1994. Ayrson Heráclito presents the stories of several afro-diasporic deities and addresses the historical wounds of a country marked by a kind of violence that has generated social and racial inequalities. He thereby proposes healing covenants in order to try to overcome the wounds left over by colonialism.
Notes: "Exposição realizada na Pinacoteca de São Paulo, de 02 de abril a 22 de agosto de 2022."--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.

Parallel texts in Portuguese and English.
Table of contents: title: Apresentação = Foreword / Jochen Volz, general director; title: Cura = Cure / Marcelo Campos; title: Escuta = Listening / Ana Maria Maio; title: Bori: a arte de car comida aos Deuses = Bori: the art of feeding the Gods / Marcello Moreira; title: Lista de obras = List of works.