I understood that I existed by taking my first steps in the city where I was born, Manaus, Amazonas. I lived in several neighborhoods and areas of the city, until existing during the last few years in the Community of José, in the japiin 1 neighborhood. Heart-daughter of the union between Benedita Brandão and Osvaldo de Almeida. From the experiences between the city, people, nature, I carry with me memories with scent, taste, life stories, mandingas, words, music, secrets and behaviors. The places where I lived were my notion of the world, and it was through these places that I developed my tastes and concerns. I graduated in Visual Arts, and started to develop series of works based on painting, woodcuts, sewing, photography in mid-2016, and started to know who I was, and could be. In 2018, I held my first and only solo exhibition so far, “Para cada vela, um pedido”, in my hometown. In the same year, I decided to travel around Brazil by hitchhiking and Id Jovem, where I made a series of exchanges and meetings in different places, and people, registering memories of my experience in diaries, collages, photographs and videos, as a documentation of life in spaces and times. My desire has always been to believe in what is real, therefore the creation of images in the present. Because it was from the realization of the image that I understood the context of erasing Black stories in my hometown and the importance of creations in first person, on different platforms, such as the street and the digital.
“Programa Convida: Kerolayne Kemblin”, 2020. Duration: 2’02”
“‘Entre pés e cabeças’. Kerolayne Kemblin”, 2020. Duration: 2’41”
“Reivindicando paredes, recontando histórias.”, 2019. Duration: 08’27”
Formation
2017
– Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts, UFAM (Universidade Federal do Amazonas)
Solo shows
2018
– “Para cada vela um pedido”, Galeria do Largo, Manaus, Brazil
Group shows
2023
– “EntreLaços”, Galeria Antonio Almeida, São Luís, Brazil
– “VerniZ”, Galeria do Largo, Manaus, Brazil
2022
– “Afrofuturismo: Las Caras Lindas de mi Gente Negra”, Centro Cívico Cultural Dominicano in collaboration with BSAM Brasil, New York, USA
– “Enciclopédia Negra: Biografias afro-brasileiras”, Pinacoteca de São Paulo Collection in MAR, Museu de Arte do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Conexões entre Raízes”, Morro da Conceição, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Amazonia Crew”, Galeria Choque Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
– Desfile AR: “Afrofuturismo: Especulações do Amanhã”, São Paulo, Brazil
2021
– “hackerurbano”, Art project/urban intervention and virtual gallery
– “Enciclopédia negra: Biografias afro-brasileiras”, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil
2020
– IMS Convida, Short film: “Fumaça do Tempo”
2019
– “Fragmentos de um corpo negro. Em transe.”, WebSérie Cumbuca, Manaus, Brazil
Residencies
2021
– LambeLambe Traveling Residency, AfetosPublicos. Parintins, Inhamundá, Amazonas, Brazil
2020
– CUÍCA Artistic Residency, Rede Lambes Brasil, Niterói, Brazil
– Immersive Residency, Expansão Veículo SUR
Lectures
2022
– Comunidade UX, Lecture: “Negro Presente e Futurismo Amazônico”, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– LAB AfroAmeríndio, Lecture: “Disparos”, Gato Mídia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Arte e Memória: Estratégias de Proteção e Produção de Infinitos”, Afrotonizar, MAM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Festivals
2021
– Festival Imersivo das Favelas, “Encontro de artes, tecnologia e narrativas imersivas feito de cria pra cria”, Photography, Collage and Ancestral Memory
2020
– Short films Festival, Fica na Rede Maninho, Film: “Entre Pés e Cabeça”, Manaus, Brazil
2019
– Festival Mural “Pedra Papel e Tesoura”, Museu Murillo La Grecca, Recife, Brazil
– Festival de Grafite Pão e Tinta, Recife, Brazil
2018
– SONORA (Festival Internacional de Compositoras), Music and artistic exhibition, São Luís, Brazil
Workshops
2021
– Laboratory of Afroindigenous Visual Narratives, Creative Facilitator, manual and digital collage
2019
– Workshop “Artes Negras, Itinerâncias e Mobgrafia”, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo Bahiano, Cachoeira, Brazil
– Collage workshop, Museu Casa Histórica de Alcântara, Alcântara, Brazil
“Kerolayne Kemblin | CUÍCA Residência 2020”, 2021. Duration: 13’14”
“Enciclopédia Negra| Leitura da obra ‘Emília’, de 2020, da artista Kerolayne Kemblin”. Duration: 7’11”
“#ContosdeVidaeNorte – Ep. 03: Kerol, o fundo do rio”, 2019. Duration: 7’48”
