Sala de vídeo: Tourmaline

MASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand presents, from April 26 to June 23, 2024, in the museum’s 2nd basement floor, Video Room: Tourmaline, showing videos by the artist, filmmaker, writer and activist Tourmaline (Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA 1983). Her work sheds light on the cultural manifestations, oppressions and modes of survival of Black, queer and trans communities, rewriting the dominant narratives and histories through references to important figures of queer resistance in the United States, such as Marsha P. Johnson – an activist who is considered an icon of the Stonewall uprising. Curated by Teo Teotonio, curatorial assistant at MASP, the artist’s debut exhibition in Brazil brings together her works Atlantic is a sea of bones (2017), Happy Birthday, Marsha! (2018) and Salacia (2019). By establishing relationships between fiction and reality, Tourmaline seeks to reformulate established beliefs and initiate a paradigm shift to imagine a future without racial, gender and sexual oppression. “The trilogy explores the past, present and future in settings that are both documentary and dreamlike. By interweaving fact and fiction, Tourmaline critically reimagines narratives that have been erased or neglected, confronting oppression and resilience in an intersectional and poetic approach, where gender, race and class are intrinsically intertwined,” says Teotonio.