Bárbara Macedo is a visual artist, researcher and art teacher; she is a transvestite and makumbeira. Holds a Bachelor’s degree of Visual Arts from Escola Guignard – UEMG. Investigates the crossroads between art, transvestite and makumba. She has participated in several solo and group exhibitions, including: “Babélica” (2023), “Museu Travesti da Neca” (2021), “BRAsA” (2019) and “Coleção Grandes Mestres das Nudes” (2018).
She worked as the curator and coordinator of the Fourth Queer Artistic Residency (2018) and as the curator of the exhibition “Trajetória Viva” (2020). Sees spirituality not only as an investigative theme, but also as a field of collective creation between the artist and the dead with whom she lives daily. Is interested in unlocking colonial traps and creatively using her good and bad moods. She is an artist from the crossroads, a place where she creates images and spells in the quest to emancipate a transvestite art. She nurtures herself with enchanted knowledge brought by the dead in the terreiro that she is part of, composed mostly of transvestites, including its caretaker-of-saint; locating as her epistemic reference the one that is based on the makumbas, on her own body and on the corporeities of other transvestites that she has been photographing for eleven years.
Bárbara Macedo is a visual artist, researcher and art teacher; she is a transvestite and makumbeira. Bachelor of Visual Arts from Escola Guignard – UEMG, with the monograph “Sudaca Draw: research in decolonial image from transvestite graphics and contemporary embroidery from Minas Gerais”, invited to present it at the Seminario Politicas de la Memoria, at the table Decolonial Aesthetics, in Buenos Aires. Published the article “Exu in the Art Schools” in number 23 of the Argentine academic magazine Lindes, from the Universidad of Buenos Aires.
Investigates the crossroads between art, transvestite and makumba. She has participated in several individual and group exhibitions, including: Babélica (2023), Museu Travesti da Neca (2021), BRAsA (2019) and Coleção Grandes Mestres das Nudes (2018). She served as curator and coordinator of the Fourth Queer Artistic Residency (2018) and as curator of the exhibition Trajetória Viva (2020). She has spirituality not only as an investigative theme, but also as a field of collective creation between the artist and the dead with whom she lives daily. Interested in unlocking colonial traps and creatively using your good and bad moods.
She is an artist from the crossroads, where she creates images and spells in the quest to emancipate a transvestite art. It is nourished by enchanted knowledge brought by the dead in the terreiro it is part of, composed mostly of transvestites, including its caretaker-of-saint; locating as her epistemic reference the one that is based on the makumbas, on her own body and on the corporeities of other transvestites that she has been photographing for eleven years.
EDUCATION
(2016 – 2022) Bacharelado em Artes Plásticas, Escola Guignard – UEMG
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Coleção Grandes Mestres das Nudes – Espaço Yanã, MG
II Mostra de Habilitações – Galeria de Arte da Escola Guignard, MG
BRAsA – Galeria de Arte Mama Cadela, MG
Ocupação por Afeto – Galeria de Arte da Assembleia Legislativa, MG
2018
XVIII Mostra Interna – Galeria de Arte da Escola Guignard, MG
Coleção Grandes Mestres das Nudes – Galeria de Arte Mama Cadela, MG
Bajubá em Movimento – Galeria de Arte Quartoamado, MG
2017
Autoretratos – Universidad Católica Nstra. Sra. De la Asunción, Paraguay
2016
Metamorfoses – Espaço Sérgio Salomão, MG
Eu, Nós, Elas – Galeria de Arte da Assembléia Legislativa, MG
GROUP SHOWS
2023
Babélica – Memorial Minas Gerais Vale
2022
ELAS Festival – Galeria Delas, MG
2021
Museu Travesti da Neca – Galeria de ArteManoel Macedo, MG
2020 Sensações Memoráveis – YouTube do Memorial Minas Gerais Vale
Movências – Centro Cultural da UFMG, MG
2019
Argonautas – Ateliê particular, MG
II Mostra de Habilitações – Galeria de Arte da Escola Guignard, MG
BRAsA – Galeria de Arte Mama Cadela, MG
Ocupação por Afeto – Galeria de Arte da Assembleia Legislativa, MG
2018
XVIII Mostra Interna – Galeria de Arte da Escola Guignard, MG
Coleção Grandes Mestres das Nudes – Galeria de Arte Mama Cadela, MG
Bajubá em Movimento – Galeria de Arte Quartoamado, MG
RESIDENCIES
2023
Residência Artística – Fórum de Fotoperformance, ESPAI Ateliê, MG
CURATORSHIP
2020
Curadora de Artes Visuais – Espaço Yanã, MG
2018
Curadora e coordenadora da RQQ – Residência Quarta Queer – Teatro Francisco Nunes, MG
AWARDS
2018
Prêmio Diadorim de Literatura – Categoria Poesia – Academia Transliterária, MG
Interview to Faísca Lab
Interview to III Fórum de Discussões do Estudo da Pintura
