Ventura Profana

(this page was last updated in July 2021)

Salvador, Brazil, 1993.
Lives and works in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

PIPA Prize 2020 and 2021 nominee.
PIPA 2021 Selected Artist.

Daughter of the mysterious entrails of mother Bahia, Ventura Profana prophesies multiplication and abundant black, indigenous and travesti life. Doctrinated in Baptist temples, she is a missionary pastor, evangelist singer, writer, composer and visual artist, whose practice is rooted in researching the implications and methodologies of deuteronomism in Brazil and abroad, through the spread of neo-Pentecostal churches. Praises, like the sting of a dagger licked with wax and rust in Pharisees’ hearts.

Website: instagram.com/venturaprofana

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