During August, 2016, as the Olympic Games evolved, Brazilian and world screens were flooded with young, beautiful, enhanced, fit, ‘efficient’ bodies that happily competed and moved around in Rio de Janeiro. [...]Read more
by Maria Eugenia Matricardi A white butterfly flies over the humid foam that floats next to the waterfall. A mere drop could exterminate it or destroy its fragile silk wings. [...]Read more
Most photographs and paintings of women women of color in the 19th century US — as well as inother slave economies of the period – portray the conditions of slavery. [...]Read more
Maria Eugenia Matricardi is a visual artist and a Doctorate student in Contemporary Poetics at the University of Brasília – UnB. She lives in the highlands of Brazilian state [...]Read more
Contemporary performance can provide a way of understanding as well as re-imagining what inclusive economies look like, particularly during crises. Performances of the economy are critical in urgent times. In [...]Read more
Njideka Akunyili Crosby is a Nigerian born artist who moved to the United States in 1999. Her main medium is collage and her works are usually impressive large. She weaves [...]Read more
Maria Teresa was Colombian actress who became a visual art performer. She died of cancer in 2008. Her art directly dialogued with the impacts of continuous political conflict in Colombia, [...]Read more
When rape and sexual violence invaded the public debate in Brazil, SPW brings, once again, attention to the work of Hifa Cybe. This Brazilian artist born in the Rio Paraíba [...]Read more
In a seminar at the University of Washington in Seattle, in May 2016, I met Yu Yin, a Chinese student. Yin had in her cell an amazing collection of postcards [...]Read more
The Sex Worker Zine Project features work that was produced by 24 men, women and transgender participants who live and sell sex in the Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces of South [...]Read more
Cindy Sherman is an internationally recognized North American photograph and artist. Her extensive works thematize gender impersonations. Sherman photographs herself impersonating a wide variety of women as they exist in [...]Read more
Alma López is a queer chicana artist who lives in California. Her work has many varied expressions. But most principally it elaborates and re-signify the imageries the images of Mexican [...]Read more
Moving Walls is an annual documentary photography exhibition produced by the Open Society Foundations Documentary Photography Project. This year exhibitions presents Shahria Sharmin’s portrait series on Bangladeshi hijras—who identify as either [...]Read more
YZ is an Anglo-Guadeloupean artist engaged in a search of Guadeloupean and African diasporic roots have taken her to Senegal. This path led her to Senegal where she currently [...]Read more
In late November, 2015, the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IFCS/UFRJ) hosted a one week course called “A particular revolution: the [...]Read more
