Open Studio: Mayara Ferrão // POSTPONED - Pivô

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Open Studio: Mayara Ferrão

28/11/2024

17h - 21h

PUBLIC PROGRAM POSTPONED

We announce the postponement of the Open Studio with Mayara Ferrão, originally scheduled for today, November 28th, due to the heavy rains affecting Salvador and the Metropolitan Region. The new date will be announced later.

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Pivô Salvador invites you to an Open Studio on November 28th, Thursday, from 5 PM to 9 PM, marking the end of Mayara Ferrão‘s artist residency.

During her residency, the artist focused on the project she began four years ago, “Verdade Tropical” (Tropical Truth), developing a series of paintings in formats she is experimenting with for the first time. In parallel, Mayara also explored her interest in analog photography, working with real Black women from the city of Salvador and revisiting the imagery built from artificial intelligence in the project “Álbum de Desesquecimentos” (Album of Forgettings).

With the doors of Pivô Salvador open, Mayara Ferrão will be showcasing part of her artistic process throughout the residency, as well as a selection from “Álbum de Desesquecimentos”, and presenting her short film “Orixás Center” at 7 PM.

In “Orixás Center”, directed by Mayara and filmed in Salvador in 2021, the artist uses the archetypes of the Orixás to create narratives with multiple visualities, blending the universes of performance, installation, video art, music, and fashion. The work connects elements of the Nagô oral tradition, Afro-Brazilian religious practices, and urban devices.

As part of the program, the artist invites to occupy the kitchen, “Cozinha Sorriso”, a homemade food experience that plays with flavors from Bahia and Minas Gerais.

Everyone is invited! ✨✨✨

Open Studio
With Mayara Ferrão
Thursday | November 28, 2024
5 PM – 9 PM | Open throughout the period
7 PM | Screening of the short film “Orixás Center”
Kitchen occupy with Cozinha Sorriso
Rua Boulevard Suíço, 11A, Nazaré – Salvador (BA)
Free Admission

Mayara Ferrão

Mayara Ferrão is a visual artist and creative director based in Salvador, Bahia. Her artistic process spans multiple languages and forms of experimentation, particularly photography, illustration, and painting (@verdadetropical), as well as creative and stage direction. She leverages various image and video technologies to create, construct, and promote narratives focused on Black, Indigenous, and dissident bodies. Her experience as a Black woman from Salvador, along with her ancestral roots, symbols, rituals, and elements of Afro-Brazilian culture, serve as sources of inspiration and research for her work.

In audiovisuals, she has directed projects, music videos, and short and medium-length films, including the works Orixás Center, Abian, and A Hora Aberta with musical direction by Letieres Leite, as well as the music video No Coração da Escuridão for singer and songwriter Mahmundi. Her films have been selected and awarded at various film festivals in Brazil and abroad: Cinefantasy, 7th EGBÉ Film Showcase, 15th Zózimo Bulbul Black Film Encounter, 5th Women’s Place is in Cinema Showcase (Best Direction award), 29th Vitória Film Festival (Honorable Mention for Best Cinematography), and the 14th Curitiba International Film Festival (Honorable Mention for Direction).

She has illustrated covers for books and projects by national and international Black feminist icons, such as Lélia Gonzalez, Patricia Collins, Saidiya Hartman, and Luana Souza. Her photography and artwork have appeared in publications such as Le Monde Diplomatique, VOGUE, Marie Claire, and Mídia Ninja.

In her series Albums of Unforgetting (2024), she uses artificial intelligence to fictionalize photographs and documents, creating intimate and ceremonial representations of Black and Indigenous women couples during the colonial period in Brazil. This work has been exhibited in group shows, including Cuir Sou: Notes on Affection at VERVE Gallery (SP); Roots: Beginning, Middle, and Beginning at MUNCAB (BA); Inhabited Memories at SESC (RJ); Tangential Body at Arrecife Gallery (RJ), and she has collaborated on projects with artists such as Luedji Luna, Liniker, and Rachel Reis.