Carmo Johnson Projects

The construction of this exhibition takes place through the possible relationships between belonging, memory, inhabiting and displacement, based on the works of Julia Angulo, Kaya Agari and Talita Zaragoza. Understanding a house as a living space, how is it possible to inhabit such different universes under this same place, understanding - at the same time - the potencies and complexities that arise from this meeting?

In this sense, the exhibition space emerges as a mediator between the works of the three artists, respecting both the individuality of their work and their personal trajectories. Kaya Agari, artist and indigenous activist of the Kurâ Bakairi ethnicity presents a research that highlights the tradition of her people, whose graphics represent the body paintings used in village rituals, in which each of the paintings presented in the exhibition bring a painting for each gender and age, and that are passed from generation to generation, as a form of cultural preservation.

If, on the one hand Kaya affirms the need to reaffirm her territory and place of belonging, almost in opposition, Talita Zaragoza has a research that explores definitions of space and physical and imaginary borders, creating abstractions that dilute these borders, transforming them into a kind of landscape.

While the works of Kaya and Talita come closer and farther apart in the same measure, in a kind of mirroring between reality and a utopia of the future, Julia Angulo places these, among many other questions on the couch, in an invitation to process the world around us, sometimes in a free associative way, sometimes facing the words that surround our memories, in an attempt to perceive ourselves as part of that whole that surrounds us. In this way, I take the environment of the house as a space in which different narratives seek approaches to each other, but without going beyond the limits of the other; as in a metaphor between the intimate and the collective. But, essentially, I bring the idea of ​​how to live between differences in a world which narrative disputes are increasingly fierce. At least here, in this house, we establish poetics that make these coexistences possible, in an exercise to imagine that it will be so in the near future.

Carmo Johnson Projects