Since 2018, the group Cartografia Negra has carried out Volta Negra, a walk in which records are shared about the experiences of black populations in the 18th and 19th centuries in the central region of the city of São Paulo. The work is the result of research that the group has been developing since 2017 on these memories and spaces. The collective, formed by Carolina Piai Vieira, Pedro Vinícius Alves and Raissa Albano, participated in the Convida Program of the Moreira Salles Institute, was part of the curatorial team of the 13th International Architecture Biennial of São Paulo and is exhibiting its work at the 18th International Architecture Biennial from Venice.
13th Bienal Internacional de Arquitetura de São Paulo, co-curated by Coletivo Cartografia Negra
The Coletivo Cartografia Negra appears to think, revisit, know and re-signify some black territories in São Paulo. Places of resistance or spaces that were used for sale, torture or executions of enslaved people and that today have names and meanings that erase these stories – often even contradict them.
Since 2018, we have held the Volta Negra, an open walk in which records are shared about the experiences of black populations in the 18th and 19th centuries, in the central region of the city of São Paulo, since 2018. Volta Negra has already been carried out with students from the Race, Modernity and Migration in the Americas course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT (Jan. 2020 / Jan. 2023), Columbia University (March 2023), Unifesp (April 2019), the Colégio Santa Maria (September 2019), Colégio Ítaca (September 2019), Escola Nossa Senhora das Graças (April. 2019), Escola Móbile (April 2019), among others.
Cartografia Negra participated in activities and partnerships such as scripting the short documentary Dia Seguinte produced by CCSP (May 2020), Programa Convida Instituto Moreira Salles (Nov 2020), Circuito de Conversas Online Memória, Povos Negros e Cidades (August 2020), On Line Race and City course in partnership at Escola da Cidadania- Instituto Pólis (August 2020), Edict Public Spaces and Right to the City August, Instituto Pólis (August 2019), Conversation circle on racism at Escola Caetano de Campos, with Coletivo Democracia Corinthiana (June 2019), Participation in the FAAP Arts Week – 2019 (May 2019), Rota Negra do Sesc-Piracicaba, itinerary inspired by Volta Negra (May 2019), training in autonomous cartography for a group of young cultural monitors from São Paulo-CIEDS (Jan.2019) and conversation at Ocupação Ouvidor 63 (July 2018).
The collective is composed of Carolina Piai Vieira, Pedro Vinicius Alves and Raíssa Albano de Oliveira, who were part of the curatorial team of the 13th International Architecture Biennale in São Paulo and are exhibiting their work at the 18th International Architecture Biennale in Venice.
