PAU-BRASIL

2022-2023, Brazil/Germany. Video, color, sound, 23’18”.

Pau-Brasil: from colour to sound, takes as its starting point the tree that gives its name to the country Brazil, its first resource exploited by the Portuguese in the Americas. The wood has been used worldwide for the production of violin bows since the fifteenth-century Europe and due to its historical and current overexploitation, it is a highly endangered species. The project proposes a critical dialogue with the centenary of Brazilian modernism in 1922, understanding the anthropophagy as an early forms of resistance to the colonialities of knowing, imagining and being.








© 2021 Barbara Marcel