Amplifying syncretism
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چکیده
Antonio Obá (b.1983) was born and grew up in Ceilândia, a dormitory town thirty kilometres outside of Brazil’s capital, Brasilia. Though this may not seem like an especially significant biographical detail considering Obá’s work – other writers, for example, have focused on the artist’s race devout Catholic upbringing I argue that foundational fact upbringing experience is more telling than first impressions suggest. This paper posits Brasilia Ceilândia as stand-ins general dynamic structures Brazilian identity nationhood. That violent generative which occurs between range symbolic pairs concepts, such black white, rich poor, formal informal, progress stasis, sacred profane, European African, so focus, thus “syncretism” emerges important term within his practice. The offers readings two performances Atos da transfiguração desaparição ou receita de como fazer um santo (2015) Malungo: Rite Black Mass (2016) well accompanying installation, Malungo (2019), examples syncretic or dialectic runs through much work.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Modos
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2526-2963']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20396/modos.v6i1.8668110