Mãe Preta participates in the exhibition “Le Brésil Illustré” in Paris

April 22, 2025English, News

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

Mãe Preta is part of the book “Decolonization and Diversity in Contemporary Photography” by Qiana Mestrich

April 22, 2025English, News

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

Reading-Performance at WELD studio in Stockholm, Sweden

June 8, 2023English, News

In June 2023, Mãe Preta was invited by curator Nina Øverli and Anna Koch at WELD contemporary dance space in Stockholm to participate in the event “Art and Motherhood”. We activated the space with an offering for the Black mothers and created a lecture-performance with the Brazilian writer and researcher Isi de Paula, and read … Read More

Apresentação do projeto Mãe Preta na conferência 18a. Berkshire Conference of Woman Historians nos EUA

May 7, 2020News, Notícias, Uncategorized

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

Projeto Mãe Preta faz intervenção no Parc Marielle-Franco em Paris

December 19, 2019News, Notícias

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

Article at C&: “Mãe Preta – Women and Resistance”

April 14, 2019English, News

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