Artist Soberana Ziza opens two exhibitions in the city of São Paulo based on a research she develops on the memory of black women in the city. The exhibitions were awarded by the Cultural Action Program of the São Paulo government and take place under the title Mulher-roots da Conexão
The works, the result of the artist’s work as a muralist, unfolded into other techniques, such as sublimation on fabric. In them, women, important characters in the city, appear connected to the land by roots. “It’s the reconnection with our ancestor. This base, this network, this strengthened root is what will be a strengthening for the future”, explains the artist.
One of the shows opened last Friday (5) at Galeria Choque Cultural, in the west side of the city. There, according to the artist, works made from research in the Liberdade neighborhood can be seen, in the central region of São Paulo. Despite having been known in recent decades by the eastern communities, the region has some major milestones in the trajectory of the black population in the city.
Memoirs
One of Ziza’s works refers to bones found in the vicinity of the Chapel of Nossa Senhora dos Aflitos, built in the 18th century, next to a cemetery of the same name, deactivated in the 19th century. The identification of part of a guide dedicated to the orixá Ogum was basis for the composition of a mural made in a company located next to Elevado João Goulart, known as Minhocão. “I take this blue account and illustrate this large company in the hand of this woman, with the blue background that is her ancestor,” says Ziza.
In studying the neighborhood, the artist came to the story of Madrinha Eunice, founder of the Escola de Samba Lavapés, in 1937, the oldest in activity in the city of São Paulo. “Eunice, who was a visionary,” emphasizes Ziza. The godmother of samba from São Paulo was honored in a work with translucent fabric, so that at the same time it is possible to see the image on the other side of the piece by the also pioneer of samba Dona Guga, from Escola do Morro da Casa Verde.
Black House
The second exhibition will open next Tuesday (9) at Casa Pretahub, in the center of São Paulo. One of the works reinterprets the statue of Mãe Preta, located in Largo do Paissandú, in downtown São Paulo. In the play, Ziza portrays the violence to which wet nurses were subjected. “That black woman is a person who provides a breastfeeding service, she had to relegate her own child”, says the artist, about the figure in the sculpture.
In her work, the artist also uses the technique with semi-transparent fabric. “In the front, there is a mother with her child in an act of affection, with a lot of connection, and, behind, the black mother with the child that was not hers”, describes the artist.
The exhibitions will be open until November 30th. At Pretahub, visitation will be from Monday to Friday, from 9 am to 6 pm. At Choque Cultural, from Tuesday to Saturday, from noon to 7 pm.
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