An exhibition on the importance of women in the process of formation of Brazil, before and after the arrival of the Portuguese, opens to the public on Friday, in Coimbra, and can be visited until October 2.
“The set of works addresses various themes within the thematic universe of the feminine and invites the public to think about and discuss the past, present and future,” said Wagner Merije, curator of the exhibition “Life, Love and Pain: Women in construction of Brazil”, in a note sent this Tuesday to the Lusa agency.
Held within the framework of the commemorations of the 200 years of the independence of Brazil, at the Penedo da Saudade Cultural Center (CCPS), it is a contribution to “understand the place and importance of women in the process of formation of Brazil” , before and after 1500, the year in which the Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral arrived in Veracruz.
According to the Brazilian Wagner Merije, “the exhibition spaces of the CCPS will be occupied with works in different formats and supports, such as analogical collages, digital prints on fabrics, ‘prints’, paintings and ceramics”, by the artists Lia Testa, Cláudia Costa and Juliana Leitao Marcondes.
“Women have been constantly denied due credit in the history of Brazil,” said the promoters of the exhibition, who seek answers to the question of “who were the women who built” the largest country in South America , where 217 million people speak? the Portuguese language.
In this story, “the woman is only glimpsed with the naked eye, the shadow of the man, almost always dwarfed and silenced, often with all kinds of violence”, in the context of a “trap [que] it was perpetuated with the unsuspected support of the Catholic Church and the State, under the clutches of patriarchy, colonialism and capitalism.”
Indigenous, Portuguese, European and African women “had important roles in the various stages of the life of the nation”, but their intervention was hidden “by national, racial, religious, political, social and gender prejudices”, in the opinion of Wagner Mérije.
“Many were the women who lived and died alongside the ‘heroes’ without honor or praise.”
The exhibition “Life, love and pain: women in the construction of Brazil” opens to the public on Friday at 6:00 p.m., and can be visited for a month, until October 2, from Tuesday to Sunday, from from 2:00 p.m. at 8:00 p.m.
Made by CCPS, from the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, it is produced and co-directed by Aquarela Brasileira Exhibitions.
Source: Observadora
