Amparo, Brazil, 1994.
Live and work in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
“Irmãs Brasil, we are a double existence of strange bodies, artists and transvestites. We were born and raised in Amparo-SP, today we live and work in Rio de Janeiro. Our work puts into shock the languages of dance, theatre and performance with operations of images and signs to create deviations in heteronormative and colonial technologies. A constant state of accidents listens and relationships in the creation of meat preparation rituals that give access to the supernatural starting from the need to escape alive, to present ghosts and raptures. We want to be targeted with Life and give our testimony;
Irmãs Brasil are a double existence of strange bodies, artists and transvestites, born in a family of rodeo pedestrians, in Amparo, in the interior of São Paulo, and were created in this macho “hinterland”. The first artistic references, the family: the father – a rodeo clown – and the mother – a battery queen.
The shock of the languages of dance, theatre and performance composes their poetics: like a snake‘s tongue, the experimental practice of freedom that they build in their processes of creating the world is born from the encounter between the body and the questions that are urgent. They work with operations of images and signs to create deviations in heteronormative and colonial technologies.
A constant state of accidents listens and relates to the creation of meat preparation rituals that give access to the supernatural. The performative actions that they build as Sisters Brazil start from the need to escape alive, to present ghosts and raptures.
Two presences assaulting a space-time. Devouring and being devoured. How to celebrate existences at risk? How to continue narrating the fictions of themselves and their healing processes? How to build strategies in the field of art not to die?
They want to be targeted with Life and give their testimony;
that’s about it …
Irmãs Brasil, the most international:
Viní Ventania
Vitória Jovem
Group Exhibitions
2019 – 2020
– “Exposição: ELÃ – o nome que a gente dá ás coisas”, Galpão Bela Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Estado de Graça”, curated by Jean Carlos Azuos, Espaço Pence, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Actions, occupations, installations
2020
– “Brazil’s dispute”, an action performed in “Uóhol”, at the opening of the exhibition Uóhol by Rafael Bqueer – Uhura Bqueer, MAR – Museum of Art of Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Gaiola”, an action performed in After apocalypse: an aspect of after I A B A H, Gallery Salgado e Refresco, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “The dispute in Brazil”, an action carried out in the exhibition of the film BACURAU organized by CINEBELA – Galpão Bela Maré, Parque União, Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Presence investigation”, occupations in three editions of “001”, Night Party in the Queer scenario of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– Debate table on the performativity of Gender – “Corpo Nós”, within the Formative Courses of the Museum of Art of Rio – MAR, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Art immersions / Art residencies
2020
– “Without words”, an immersion of creation with Companhia Brasileira de Teatro, Studio in São Paulo, Brazil
– “Ouverture (Mantras for a Club), invited by Mathias Ringgenberg (PRICE), creative residence at Carpintaria da Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel within COBERTURA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Eunuchs”, 2019, Season and Residence “exhibition: ELÃ – o nome que a gente dá ás coisas”, Galpão Bela Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2019
– “The diabolical language”, Immersion with Carolina Bianchi. Espaço Montagem, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Políticas do Cuidado – Conversa com as Irmãs Brasil, 2020. Duration: 123’10”
