#brazilian-contemporary-art

#brazilian-contemporary-art

Rhythm & Soul - Brazilian Contemporary Art (68projects) is a sweeping and deeply political panorama of Brazil's contemporary art scene, bringing together multiple generations of artists whose works reflect the country's beauty, contradictions, and ongoing struggles. From Afro-diasporic identity to Indigenous cosmologies, from gender and territory to resistance and joy, the exhibition reveals rhythm as a social force: a pulse that carries memory, protest, spirituality, and the tension between a fractured present and an imagined future.

In her thesis, The Time of Colour, Dos Santos presents her research on the blue pigmentation of the Clitoria ternatea flower, a central element in her work. Dos Santos encourages viewers to observe the "performative" qualities of the pigment, which "fades and opens a sensitive space for reflection on transformation and impermanence", she tells The Art Newspaper. The forthcoming residency will provide Dos Santos with opportunity to further her botanical studies and explore new technologies that can contribute to her investigations of the flower.