Espírito Livre

AD MOON

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Artwork

Musical work, click below to listen:

Description

Espírito Livre (free spirit) is a small EP composed of 3 experimental lo-fi/chillhop beats. A work entirely faithful to the culture of sampling, with calm timbres, such as rhodes and sax, which contrast with striking boombap drums.

Free is what I seek to be, in and out of my songs. I seek to express in an abstract way everything my heart feels and all the experience I already carry in this existence. At the same time, I seek to provide a feeling of refuge and tranquility with the choice of timbres, thus contributing to finding an internal freedom whenever the sound is playing.

The track names are respectively:

1. Suspiro (0:00)
2. Fuga (2:47)
3. Alívio (4:46)

• Category: Música

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Artist

AD MOON

Ad Moon is 24 years old, she is a beatmaker and visual artist from the Northwest area of Belo Horizonte. Her artistic career began in 2014 with graffiti, through the contact she had with Hip Hop since childhood. Ad has already communicated with several artistic languages, including studying Fine Arts for two years at the Guignard School, until finally deciding to dedicate himself to music production. She has been producing beats since 2019 and has already released 2 solo EPs, in addition to having collaborations on projects with other artists and venturing into the creation of NFT beats. Her musical identity goes through boombap, lo-fi and chillhop, always in an experimental and free way.

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Corte da Aranha

Gabriel Lopo

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Artwork

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Corte da Aranha, 2022
47 x 66 cm - Acrylic on Brown Paper

LC’s MC Vitin has a funk called Tatuagem da Aranha (Spider’s Tattoo), where he tells the story of a young man from a favela enjoying his weekend. The spider tattoo appears as a symbol of communication. I live in the Concórdia neighborhood, which was born from the eviction of a favela that is now called Barro Preto, in Belo Horizonte. Here in the neighborhood, several children get a haircut that consists of the traditional “disguised” haircut with a spider drawn on the back of the head. This cut reaffirms the spider as an element of communication between young people from peripheral territories. The painting Corte da Aranha tries to account for this poetic dimension.

• Category: Pintura

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Gabriel Lopo

Born in Montes Claros, in the north of Minas Gerais, and based in Belo Horizonte, Gabriel Lopo discusses issues related to the unequal distribution of development, racialities and ideology. He seeks to elaborate the idea of ​​the artist as a communicator, decoder and intellectual agent. In addition to his research and work with art, he works with cultural production. Collaborates in projects of SESC MG and the Greater Belo Horizonte’s Youth Forum. He coordinates the Guará Laboratory, a platform for articulation between art, culture and communication, and is graduating in Journalism at UFMG.

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Corpo periférico

Gustavo Martins

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Artwork

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The Modern Art Week was held after 100 years of Brazil’s Independence, and sought to create an image of what it means to be Brazilian. However, during the previous years, newly “freed” enslaved peoples were left to self-survival.

At the time of the artistic movement, poor workers, mostly non-white, were expelled from their homes in central regions. Like the story of the Papuda woman who lived in what is now the Palácio da Liberdade (Belo Horizonte). The destruction of Curral Del Rey forced the original residents to leave their homes, expelling them from the Central region to the outskirts of the city.

While there was a growth of the suburban population, one of the real realities of the Brazilian person, there was a strengthening of those who hold money and power through the work of these people.

Within communities, one of the bodies that most suffer from the impacts of globalization is that of the mother – especially single mothers; who face financial risks and difficulties such as overload, and maintain a greater backlog of tasks.

This watercolor painting is inspired by the Venus sculpture by Willendorf and idealizes the black mother, a representation of fertility, the same one who stands on the front line of the Brazilian suburbs. The overlapping of the limbs denote how this body is divided to take care of the numerous duties that fall on this being. This is one of the true Brazilians.

• Category: Pintura

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Gustavo Martins

Hey, my name is Gustavo Martins, but you can call me Guto! I’m 28 years old and I’m from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. I started painting in 2016 in order to illustrate my first blog “Um ex adolescent”, in which I published poems, short stories, chronicles, with watercolor paintings. Through art, I seek to narrate experiences as a black, gay and peripheral boy. Alto Vera Cruz, the neighborhood in which I grew up, has a strong influence on these experiences.

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Cafuza

Heberte Almeida

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Artwork

Musical work, click below to listen:

Description

Cafuza appears as a proposal to create a musical theme for the opening of the podcast Pelo Avesso. The instrumental composition develops a rhythm with musical elements that refer to indigenous and Afro-Brazilian sounds in a plot with guitars and electronic textures. The music carries a feeling of affirmation of a Brazilianness that is raised by the strength, beauty, resistance and charms of native peoples and black communities. A Brazil that disputes the present, re-reads the past and visualizes its future in the arms, minds and souls of black and indigenous people.

The podcast Pelo Avesso addressed the theme of eugenics and the harmful consequences of this racist theory in the structures, in the imagination and in the actions of the Brazilian state and society. Although the song is featured on the Pelo Avesso podcast, it was never released.

• Category: Music

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Artist

Heberte Almeida

Heberte Almeida works as a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and music educator. In 2020, he released the album Negro Amor, his first solo work. In the same period, he developed the research Poéticas do Morro through the LAB Cultural from BDMG Cultural. He is one of the authors of the original soundtrack of the film In the No coração do mundo (2019). He integrates the bands Pelos and Diplomattas and collaborates with several artists from the Belo Horizonte scene.

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Stones against the rock

LadoBeco

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Artwork

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The concept of the work is to simultaneously demonstrate something elementary and dubious referenced in a children’s game. In it I bring two personas in which one is supported by the strength of the other. Their physical characteristics can be understood as the social pyramid that is composed of a broad base, but limited in resources – that’s why the blue persona is smaller and thinner. The reddish persona is larger, despite being equally thin, which can demonstrate that both the base and the top of the pyramid are lacking something that truly nourishes them.

The reddish persona has a slingshot, which demonstrates that the top pyramid is equipped with a weapon while being supported by the base, which even with its limitation and resource disadvantage supports the top. The main question is the fact that both personas are blindfolded, they have weapons, target, but no vision, which makes the fight against a true enemy more complex.

Its colors can relate to the current moment of political polarization in our country, in which we are in the same place, but divided. And without vision, we can’t look down to see the needs below our belly button, and we can’t look up to see the bigger picture.

The scenery is an already worn and outdated wooden fence, which hinders the visualization of a perceptible blue sky through the holes and grooves. This scenario can be interpreted as the fence being the old policy, which still surrounds us despite the fact that we can already see small holes that lead us to a more expansive view of the world.

• Category: Pintura

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Artist

LadoBeco

Born and raised in Belo Horizonte - MG, in the Lagoinha neighborhood, LadoBeco studies Fine Arts at Guignard (State University of Minas Gerais). He started his work with graffiti and street art 15 years ago and joined the Arte Urbana Rupestre group. He worked as a graffiti workshop monitor for the social program Fica Vivo, Projovem and for the Fábrica de Graffiti collective.

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Poder e Glória

Letícia Valentino

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Artwork

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The magic of opposites consists in never being able to put them together, like water and oil, but in understanding that there will be no meaning if they are seen alone. For the contrast to exist, there must be opposites together, and then water and wine will prove to be the most inseparable couple among the living.

The contrast between the rhinoceros and the woman occurs when thinking of the animal as the personification of power and the female figure as glory, royalty, and vice versa. In this way, they express an unconditional and inseparable couple, making sense only under the condition of being together.

Acrylic and oil paint painted on mdf wood.

• Category: Pintura

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Letícia Valentino

Born and raised in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Letícia Valentino is a self-taught artist and also a tattoo artist. She has the joy of living and a certain rebelliousness as her main motivations for creating. Through art she can create rescues and escapes from a dystopian reality and at the same time denounce it. She is passionate about portraying the world and the people around me through doodles.

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OS MORTOS, Com a Licença de Cruz e Sousa

Luscas Gonçalves de

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Com a Licença de Cruz e Sousa is an “everyday” reading/performance that appreciates the poetic work of the symbolist author Cruz e Souza and, through the articulation of creative practices, builds pills of poems within an ordinary context.

• Category: Literatura

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Luscas Gonçalves de

Luscas Gonçalves de is an actor, Literature student, author and researcher. He is currently working the plays of the Trupe Estrela; in the scenic experiment Com a Licença de Cruz e Sousa; in his solo work Campo Minado; in recent years he has been in contact with the Open Program, from the Workcenter of J. Grotowski and Thomas R. (Italy), and had the opportunity to present, in Turkey, the work The Hidden Sayings, repertoire of the group, as well as Sedentos, developed in Londrina (Brazil); researches the Vissungo, an Afro-Mineiro song.

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TENS O.T.A PINK BALL

Prince Willand Cabal

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Dance presentation in the ballroom artistic segment, it is a 10s video, which is a sample of what is mastered within the category, in this case, “tens” of vogue femme (category danced within the ballroom community).

• Category: Dança

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Prince Willand Cabal

William De Castro Pacheco da Silva, born in the Serra neighborhood, 21 years old, independent peripheral artist, vogue dancer. He is a promoter and producer of Ballroom culture in Brazil and representative of the House of Cabal in the title of “Prince”. He began his studies in 2019 through free workshops offered by Centro Cultural Lá da Favelinha, an independent cultural center located in Aglomerado da Serra.

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Cabeças abertas

Rafael Boneco

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Cabeças abertas is a proposition/work under construction that takes place primarily around the city and the walls of Belo Horizonte, written with spray and latex paint, which deals with time and how information or knowledge fills us in some way. Especially for Crypto/Serrão, a watercolor on paper was developed, portraying in an unprecedented way a composition of disembodied heads piling up and strangely balanced. Just like the artist does on the streets.

• Category: Pintura

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Rafael Boneco

Rafael Boneco - Graffiti artist, plastic artist with a bachelor in painting by the Guignard School - UEMG, member of the Collective [IN.Graffiti], which since the beginning of 2009 has been working with interventions, projects and works where Graffiti has cultural expression. Graduated in the free Plastic Arts course at Arena da Cultura in 2008, he is also a member of the collective [Profissionais do Ramo] and now [o rôdo coletivo] that, among other fashion projects, executed and created the DASPU collection in 2008 and 2009.

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Insegurança pública 1

Riel

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Oil painting that belongs to the series “insegurança pública”. In this work I used as a reference a media photographic record that denounced the violence of the 1964 military dictatorship against a white young woman, I chose to do a reinterpretation replacing the victim with a black woman in order to give visibility to black people who were also victims of violence of the dictatorship despite not making the headlines of the time.

The objective of this series is to reflect on the images of violence as mechanisms of oppression and resistance during the period of the Brazilian military dictatorship, considering the aspects of race, class and gender. In addition, I wanted to discuss similarities and differences of urban violence between the dictatorial period and the present day.

• Category: Pintura

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Riel

My name is Riel, I’m a Visual Arts student at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, and a resident of a suburb of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. About my artistic production, I explore multiple qualifications within the visual arts with the main focus on painting, developing my work around issues such as social inequality, racism and especially urban violence.

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Só Lazer

Trigger

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This photo I took trying out a film that was expired, aiming for an overexposure. The result was very grainy and unclear photos. I like this series because it reminds me a lot of the old photos we have here in the shanty town. It takes me to a time when access was very rare, being able to reproduce this aesthetic even in an experimental way today is nothing less than a privilege. I really like this almost contradictory idea of bringing analog to the apex of what we have of access and consumption of digital images and arts in general, an analog NFT… Is it possible? I think so!

Starting from the motto proposed by Crypto/Serrão, Modernism, I think that this proposal dialogues a lot with the idea or proposal of modernizing the analog, even if it is just a simulacrum formed by “zeros” and “ones”. Whenever I think about it, Chico Science’s monologue comes to my mind:

modernize the past
It’s a musical evolution
Where are the notes that were here?
I don’t need them!
Just let it all sound good to the ears

This tells me that no matter how hard I try to reproduce the past, it will only be an attempt. Just do it the best way I can, and get as close to my initial goal as possible.

Photo taken in 2018 on a forced lomo Xpro using a Pentax K1000.

• Category: Fotografia

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Trigger

Alexsandro Trigger, 28 years old, resident of Morro do Papagaio, in Belo Horizonte/MG. Studies museology at UFMG, is a cultural producer and a visual artist with a focus on research on analog audiovisual processes, ethnic-racial issues, suburb matters, museological and African-based questions. Coordinator of Muquifu, Museum of Quilombos and Urban Favelas, member of the collectives: Isto Não é um Sarau; Kilombola Museology; Hunko Letivo and Colectivo Mofo.

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160

Vorazx

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Artwork

Musical work, click below to listen:

Description

This trap song was made because I almost lost my motorbike last year due to a ride with the wrong companies… In 2022, entering the rap scene, I had this idea. And I also wanted to portray a little of our experience, a little of what we like. I wanted to encourage those who listen to 160 to always seek the path of prosperity, without getting their arses busted.

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Vorazx

Adson Souza Martins do Carmo, 23, better known as Vorazx, is an artist from the east of Belo Horizonte. Raised in the Alto Vera Cruz neighborhood, he saw in trap music a way to change reality, with sounds that bring everyday experiences and themes that every favelado likes.

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Noite de baile

frad

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Yo! This is the sneaker we see the most on the feet of the crowd. And the brand is part of our daily lives, because since we were little, we dreamt of having a good looking sneaker. And not only a shoe, but also a shirt, a sports shirt. That’s why I put the Brazilian flag on the tongue of the footwear, right? And the favela looks this way, with the lights on, because the flow starts at night. And it’s at night that you put on your sneakers to show off, to be elegant, to stay cool. And the crowded favela there means that there is an agglomeration of people. A lot of bros and chicks together at the party.

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frad

So, bro. My name is Jefferson, better known as Frad out there. I am born and raised in Serra, Belo Horizonte. I always doodled, I always drew. Art has always been present in all aspects. Also in writing, in one’s way of speaking, of expressing thyself. The art I think I’m most involved in is drawing and music. I try to pass everything I live on to the painting, to the canvas, and to the walls too. I think art is freedom, I want everyone to do their art without fear, whoever wants to tattoo, draw, sing, they shall sing.

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Você não vai fazer de novo?

princeznhadapaz

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Video-performance produced in 2021 for presentation with Coletivo Plano (Porto Alegre). 5 minutes.

One will always try to take advantage of situations in the way that works best for oneself. For example: either one is too snobbish, or one makes agreements that one could never fulfill by paying with what one receives from those who dominate oneself.

— Don’t talk to me like you’re my tamer!
— With skill, and may today be different from when your little brat ways got into me.
— We go according to one’s personality, one obeys when one wants, when it is convenient for thyself or when one is being subjugated…

Soundtrack: EVEHIVE

Production: @sergio__
@namoradinhadobrazil
@ramiel2000______ @vovodazn

• Category: Vídeo performance

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princeznhadapaz

Lavinni is an audiovisual artist, educator and cultural producer. She builds interventions in multi artistic languages in dialogue with black corporeities, and with loud music, piracy and sampling. In addition to individual works, she participates in collective actions with platforms in Belo Horizonte, such as GALLA ON FIRE, a trans-Travestigenre and dissident artistic articulation that strategically occupies the arts systems, to make visible and value artistic works by trans and black people.

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quedA

zezito

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“Olhei no espelho, Ícaro me encarou…” (I looked in the mirror, Icarus looked at me)

Excerpt from the song Ismália, by Emicida, which has been perpetuated in my mind since 2019, when I produced this work. As time passes, since its conception, the more sense it seems to make.

A reflection on the fragility of conquests and disproportionate demand directed at a people. In a society where error is decisive and in order to be, it is necessary to be twice as much.

• Category: Arte Digital

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zezito

I’m José Victor, aka zezito. I am 19 years old, I was born and raised in the east side of Belo Horizonte. My contact with art began with illustration and then I went through painting, photography, audiovisual production, among many other forms of expression and representation.

Art occupies a very important place in my life, pushing me at all times. Through it I try to represent a little bit of what I live and see, being a young black man, from a suburb, and being part of the LGBTQ+ community.

Currently, I have ventured into the development of digital paintings, exploring and learning a lot in this infinite world of possibilities.

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