São Paulo: Através das águas costuramos outras histórias brasileiras
It is impossible to talk about Brazil without travelling through bodies of water. From the sea, we inherit civilisational torrents of African nations that were ported here and thrived in counter-colonial resistance. From freshwater, we feel the springs of struggle of the Indigenous people of this land emerge. Seeing water as a medium and crossings as a conceptual key to understanding the country, we orient ourselves through the knowledge of Brazilian Indigenous and Afro-diasporic people.
This exhibition rises like a collective embroidery, where memory becomes the guiding thread, sewing the method, and imagination the backdrop. The waters and sewing evoked in the title act as symbolic bridges between past, present, and future. It brings together commissioned works and pieces from the collections of artists whose practices and voices knit stories and memories of their communities. Interweaving politics, spirituality and poetry, they reimagine Brazil. Their work is an unstoppable force, originating from the collective core, present in our bodies, in our desires, in our future: the sewing of our own history.
State of Fashion 2024 | Através das águas costuramos outras histórias brasileiras
Between April 5 and 7 2024, Hanayrá Negreiros curated the exhibition Através das águas costuramos outras histórias brasileiras along with a series of talks at the Centro Cultural São Paulo (CCSP) in São Paulo, Brazil.
A representation of State of Fashion 2024 | Através das águas costuramos outras histórias brasileiras was on view at Rembrandt Theatre throughout the duration of the Biennale.
Através das águas costuramos outras histórias brasileiras
Through the Waters We Sew Other Brazilian Stories, São Paulo, Brazil
Centro Cultural São Paulo, 5 – 7 April 2024
Curated by Hanayrá Negreiros
Featuring:
Aline Motta
Angela Brito
Bordadeiras do Curtume
Goya Lopes
Dayana Molina
Nangayanga
Isa Silva
Sallisa Rosa
Hanayrá Negreiros
Hanayrá Negreiros is a fashion scholar, writer and curator. Previously deputy curator of fashion at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, she is currently focusing her PhD on Afro-Atlantic clothing, fashion, Black women and the 19th century.
Hanayrá aims to decentralise Brazilian fashion in São Paulo, focusing on indigenous artists and designers through a series of collaborative commissions.
