more value than ‘valia’

NO HALF WORDS NOR

Before getting to know the Maré de Matos of the instigating art-things that are situated, or rather, move in the midst of intersign spaces that the artist continually brings together and tensions, I met Mariana de Matos of the thunderous and overflowing speech-thought, without socks. words or “half-pictures”.

It’s been about 5 years since this happened, seeing her/hearing her in a video in which her thought-speech is accompanied by an interrogation-gaze so intense and firm that I was immediately certain that that artist person was someone, at the very least, very interesting.

Maré de Matos
Governador Valadares, Brazil, 1987

Maré de Matos, transdisciplinary artist. Mineira, from the Rio Doce Valley. Graduated in Visual Arts at Guignard School (UEMG), Master in Literary Theory (UFPE), currently developing the research project museum of emotions in the Doctorate (USP).

She exercises the tension between version and truth; single story and polyphonic counter-narratives; power and position and wants to ignite this world configuration. She researches representation and responsibility, imagination and delirium of modernity, invention of race and self-narrative, subjectivity and counter-colonial pedagogies. She works in hybrid languages and her works are situated, above all, in the gap between the territories of image and word. She is interested in the black Atlantic as a formative process; by revision as a principle and by poetry as a political tool of emancipation. She defends the right to emotion of black subjects deprived of the status of humanity.