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Ebó-performance in video and photography 2020

Castor bean leaves, mud, clay pot, clay pot and palm oil. Òsanyìn, Òṣàlá and gourd (àkerègbè) beads.

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''Nature complained,

Wind that blows didn't blow,

The sun that shines did not shine,

Today it thundered"

(The Ticuãs)

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Castor leaf and clay are the central elements in this Ebó.

Castor is sedative, it can heat and even cool.

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Castor bean in Candomblé is used sometimes as shakes to ward off the evil eye, sometimes as a refractory of sustenance for sacred food in rituals in terreiros, as in the banquets offered to Omolu, the Olùbàjè. Atóo o de!

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Ritual of healing and protection of black bodies. Manipulate the earth collectively. In practice, to develop devices that contribute to the individual and collective healing process.

In order to draw attention to plant extractivism, I use castor bean as an articulation and mediation between body and territory.

Collect and prepare castor oil leaves — I mix the slip with the palm oil. I cover the green castor leaves, creating layers that perish over time—layers that protect the leaves that protect the body.

Action of repetition – of movement.

Seal colonial wounds — overlay the skin with leaves — layers that create cloaks of protection. Fluid layers — about histories marked by silencing, coloniality, racism.

(Re)construct ancestral narratives – possible healing technologies. Prepare the body and territory for the future.

The Ebó-performance video was awarded by FUNCEB, in the video art show at the Calendar of Arts, 2020;

He was awarded by ÚNICO, participated in the show at #CulturaemRedeSescPe, 2020.

Below are photographs of the Ebó-performance presented at the festival Aldeia Do Velho Chico, 2020.

Photos: Abajur Soluções em Audiovisual.

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