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Father and Mother- I am cabocla
Unfamiliar portrait with my mother and my father [and brace]
Latina. I used to have a nonprofit to promote Latinx Art and take art programs to marginalized Latino communities. I fought for inclusion and to open for fair conditions to participate. I advocated for what I believed that, art, as a place of participation and dialogue should be acessive to all groups. Talent is not privilege, but conditions to participate in the arts is.
“Ode to the object” installation [action of an object and of an object]: How does the art of our time relate to the issues of our time? How the non-participation of many groups from arts related to the issues affecting peer population?
[Can the vulnerability of the artist be an art material?] How to appropriate your own creation from a place of vulnerability where it is created without yourself becoming vulnerable in an environment where agency is necessary to survive? How to not loose agency when yourself becomes an object? #Eva_Rocha photos with object // ©evarocha #EvaRocha #EvaRocha #artist #brazilian #contemporary #womenartist #latinxartist #bibocartist #emergingartist #artistas_do_Brasil
There are many Eva Rocha [s] in the web [and in me]. This one is me, I think...
I was born in a 3 streets, 9 blocks town in Brazil. Itacolomy as it was called was not in the map. It is now, and it has a “touristic attraction site” -this photo. It is now called Novo Itacolomi (New itacolomi). The word Itacolomy, by the way, means Beautiful Rock in the native language of Brazil. There were no galleries or museums in Itacolomy. But yes, there was Art. An art that was genuine to place and collective expression. And what is that which is called art? Who were those that decided what art is? What is implicit in the art dialogue - if there is one. Who are the ones who decide who has the right to participate in the arts, in the arts’ dialogue? Art creation is not a privilege. Art is an atemporal own alphabet of any so-called-culture. Art exists prior to definitions of culture or art.