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Sexuality & Art

Uýra Sodom’s organised revolt

Sonia Corrêa Uýra Sodoma is a non-binary Amazonian performance artist. She is intersectional in every sense. In one of her multiple layers, Uýra is a descendant of Mundurukus; in another, [...] Read more

Paula Rego: yet the right to abortion

The Tate Britain Museum of Art is featuring a retrospective of the Portuguese artist Paula Rego, whose paintings and ideas SPW periodically revisit to illustrate local challenges, especially to women’s [...] Read more

Blinds: The paintings by Chandraguptha Tenuwara

  Then I have realized that even before putting those kinds of blinds [of the lock down], we are living under a situation of blinds,  we are consciously blind, we [...] Read more

Lucile Boiron’s Above All: An Exploration of the Living

The photos in Lucile Boiron’s series Mise en pièce, taken between a cosmetic surgery theatre and her own home, are graphic. The project sees Lucile place shots of body parts on operating [...] Read more

Diva: vulva and wound

A 33-meter open red vulva was dug in the lands of the Usina de Arte, a gallery located in the South Forest of Pernambuco. According to the artist who conceived [...] Read more

Léon Ferrari and the implacable contestation to religion

In his artistic practice, Léon Ferrai makes use of different languages, such as sculpture, drawing, writing, collage, assemblage, installation and video. This heterogeneous set of practices constitute a quest for [...] Read more

Profane Fortune

Ventura Profana (which can be translated as Profane Fortune) is a singer, writer, composer, performer, and visual artist from Bahia, in the Northeast Region in Brazil. She is also an [...] Read more

Engineered antibody, by Anna Dumitriu

Anna Dumitriu is a British artist who works with BioArt, sculpture, installation and digital media to explore our relationship with infectious diseases, synthetic biology and robotics. Her work attempts to [...] Read more

The politics of Carnival

Despite passed 400 days of JMB’s ruling, Brazil’s carnival has shown the strength of popular festivities in producing laugh and scorn. Viradouro samba school was crowned champion of Rio de [...] Read more

Women Artists: Berna Reale

SPW has the pleasure to present the work of Pará born (Brazil) artist Berna Reale. Berna is one of the finalists of the 2019 Pipa Prize for her work. Berna [...] Read more

Art, risk and deconstruction

– What do humans have to do not to have regret at that last second before we die? That is one of Elizabeth Streb’s moving questions for art and dance. [...] Read more

“You’ll see me, therefore I exist”: black body and beauty

In the March issue of SPW’s Sexuality & Art, we feature the works of American black artist Mickalene Thomas. She invites us to decolonizing look into traditional paintings by pooting [...] Read more

A meeting between Rosana Paulino and Belkis Ayón

In November 2015, on the trail of the “feminist occupations”, we published for the first time the work of the black painter Rosana Paulino, whose central themes of interest are [...] Read more

Bodies and words performing in somber times

In a time of mourning, processing and making our best to re-exist in the glooming post-electoral atmosphere in Brazil, SPW brings back to our screens three artists who used their [...] Read more

Changing the world with posters from ’68

The exhibition at MIMA Museum entitled “May ’68 and protest movements in posters” recollects legendary posters used as protesting political vehicles from the sixties. The images, large, colorful, strong show [...] Read more
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