Mãe Preta participates with six prints of the series Ways of Seeing in the exhibition Le Brésil Illustré, at the Maison de l’Amérique Latine, from April 29 to October 2, 2025. See information here. The exhibition is curated by Jacques Leenhardt and Gabriela Longman, with contemporary artworks that reinterpret the legacy of Jean-Baptiste Debret (1768-1848), … Read More
In 2017, we gave an interview to US photographer and researcher Qiana Mestrich for her blog Dodge & Burn. Since then, we have collaborated with Qiana in the Mãe Preta catalogue, where she contributed with an article about black motherhood from a historical perspective, from archives to contemporary Black artists representing motherhood in their work. … Read More
On October 15, the exhibition Reler Debret (Rereading Debret) opened in the Museu Castro Maya – Chácara do Céu, in Rio de Janeiro. Museu Castro Maya has one of the largest collections of original prints and paintings by Jean-Baptiste Debret, a French painter who spent decades depicting the first stages of independence in Brazil in … Read More
As a way of making permanent our contribution to the visual history of Rio de Janeiro, in December 2022 we are delighted that all artworks and documentation in the Mãe Preta project have been donated to MAR – Museu de Arte do Rio’s permanent collection. The donation includes more than 70 artworks and documents such … Read More
This week, we open a new exhibition in Campinas, north of São Paulo – a historically agricultural region where the history of slavery has left many legacies. And which has a curious connection to the history of photography. Even though slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1888, the plantation owners of Campinas (then called São … Read More
A convite de Ana Lúcia Araújo, historiadora brasileira radicada nos Estados Unidos, fomos convidadas para apresentar o projeto Mãe Preta no painel “Interrogating the Visual Archive of Slavery: Enslaved Women in Art, Museums, and Memorials” na conferência Berkshire Conference of Woman Historians na sua 18a.edição na Johns Hopkins University em Baltimore, EUA em maio de … Read More
Em 13 de dezembro de 2019, no dia de Santa Luzia, o projeto Mãe Preta executou uma intervenção artística no Parc Marielle-Franco em Paris. O parque, recém-inaugurado em setembro de 2019, e financiado pela prefeitura de Paris sob a prefeita Anne Hidalgo, é o único monumento público dedicado à vereadora carioca assassinada aos 38 anos … Read More
Em novembro de 2019, o projeto Mãe Preta fez parte da exposição coletiva A Meeting of Minds no AllArtNow Lab, com direção artística da curadora síria Abir Boukhari, radicada desde 2015 em Estocolmo, Suécia. Abir é uma das curadoras do espaço AllArtNow inaugurado em 2006 em Damasco, em parceria com sua irmã, a artista plástica … Read More
Great article by Ana Paula Orlandi, published on January 2nd, 2019 as an editorial article for C& América Latina! “Exhibition recounts the narrative of black women who breastfed the children of white slave owners in order to reflect on structures that persist today in Brazilian society. In 2015, when participating in a group exhibition in … Read More
In December 2016, we were interviewed by photographer and writer Qiana Mestrich from Brooklyn, New York for her online magazine Dodge & Burn: Decolonizing Photography History. Qiana is interested in the aspect of decolonizing photography and seeking to “seeks to establish a more inclusive history of photography, highlighting contributions to the medium by people within underrepresented … Read More