{"uid":"Tv94T0yWogA7lt3N","type":"artist","tags":["public-space"],"group":"no","group_name":null,"project_title":"Transatlantic Colors","summary":"Body painting performances that use colour to recount Transatlantic history.\n\nDrawing on the different uses and meanings of the colours in the Americas and in Africa in precolonial periods, the extraction of gold, of Indigo, silver and of cochineal  and brazilwood (red) via the work of African and Indigenous slaves in the colonial period, the Transatlantic colours project proposes body paint performances , photography and video-art, that recount Afro-Indigenous Transatlantic history and analyse the relationships between Europe, Africa and the Americas in the present. \n\nThe first performance of the series  was created by Modou Sall in September 2019, Valencia, Spain. \n\nBorn in Casamance, Senegal, Modou Sall currently lives in Madrid and came to Spain at 14, in a patera (small boat) crossing the Atlantic. He was lost at sea for 12 days and rescued by the Red Cross. \nHis life are some of the themes explored in the video made with Anita Ekman.","space":"An installation will be presented with the series of photos,  video-art (18 minutes) and objects used in the performance (ceramic body stamps and natural colors used)\nA space for displaying photos and video art and objects is around 8 meters by 8 meters.","artists_proposal":null,"members":[],"lang":"pt","status":"ok","video_link_password":null,"video_link":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_FixkolrepE","audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/f9PYR4jqitU","images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"fileCount":3,"names":"Anita","surname":"Moreira de Azevedo Ekman Sim\u00f5es","email":"brasil.anita@gmail.com","dni_type":"DNI","dni":"34819933-8","address":"Rua Aureliano Coutinho 243 ap 41","city":"S\u00e3o Paulo","nacionality":"brasileira","country_id":"34","birthdate":"1985-01-05T02:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1985-01-05T02:00:00.000Z","telephone":"1141698059","web":null}