The Cidade do Samba Joãozinho Trinta, which is located in Gamboa, the port region of Rio de Janeiro, is being “enveloped” with posters, pasted using the lambe-lambe technique, which portray 1,700 mothers from all over the country, including , the matriarchs of the 12 samba schools of the Special Group. They posed for photographers Beatriz Gimenez, born from Morro do Pinto, and Douglas Dobby, from Morro da Providência. The exhibition Inside Out – Mother, A Portrait was conceived by the co-director of the Casa Amarela Providência community center, the Frenchwoman Nina Soutoul, who was based on her own experience as mother of Zion, who is now two and a half years old. by postpartum depression during the covid-19 pandemic and that this motivated her to create a project to show “the invisible work” of mothers, who face challenges and difficulties, often unknown by society. “My idea was to portray the reality of these women, seeing that my experience, even though it was challenging for me, was not the worst. It was very important for me to travel through the states of Brazil, together with organizations of other women and mothers, to photograph partner mothers, quilombola mothers, black mothers, peripheral mothers, indigenous mothers.” The call for mothers was the result of word-of-mouth work and another through social networks. In each state, a call was made focusing on the need for portraits of mothers. Interested women organized the photography sessions themselves. “It was all in partnership with mothers and women, with no other support,” said Nina. Project includes collage of photographs of mothers in Cidade do Samba using the lick-lick technique – Douglas Dobby/Divulgaçāo Cultural environment Each portrait represents a bit of the mother’s life, through the art of photography. The exhibition is held for the first time in Cidade do Samba, a space that has been in existence for 17 years. According to the Marketing director of the Independent League of Samba Schools of Rio de Janeiro (Liesa), Gabriel David, the Cidade do Samba is more than a space for the schools’ barracks. “We want to make it more and more a cultural environment”, said Davi. For him, the exhibition reinforces the initiative, in addition to paying a well-deserved tribute to the women of the associations, who are so important for the carnival. The collages started on the 16th of this month and are expected to be finished next week. With this rich material in their hands, Nina Soutoul and Verônica Linder made a documentary, which should premiere by the end of this year. The photographs from the exhibition Inside Out – Mãe, Um Retrato will be glued together until the second half of the year, when the new edition of Rua Walls, partner of the exhibition and responsible for the conversations with Liesa to free up the space and also for the production of the collages, will begin. After filling both sides of a 1.5-kilometer stretch of Avenida Rodrigues Alves with murals, in 2020 and 2021, Rua Walls is preparing to color the entire façade of Cidade do Samba. The action will count on the participation of 20 artists, who will color the approximately 20 thousand square meters of the buildings with murals. JR The exhibition Inside Out – Mother, a portrait constitutes a stage of the international project Inside Out, created by the French photographer JR in 2011, with the aim of giving visibility to the tireless work of mothers in the world, as well as discussing women’s mental health Brazilian women in motherhood, focusing on the challenges and impacts generated by the pandemic. This is the first time that the project takes place in Brazil. “I feel inspired by mothers from different locations and realities, who used the project as a mobilization and connection strategy. Behind each portrait is a unique story that raises the question of how our society needs to be more supportive of mothers,” said JR. Using his own artistic practice as inspiration, JR has created a participatory platform that helps individuals and communities get their message across using large-scale black-and-white portraits, pasted like lick-and-paste in public spaces. Through these actions, communities around the world sparked conversations and collaborations. Over the past 11 years, more than 400,000 people from 138 countries have participated in the Inside Out project. On Mother’s Day, the exhibition Inside Out – Mother, A Portrait will gain a special projection in the annex building of the Copacabana Palace Hotel. The action is scheduled for the period from May 11th to 14th and there will be a special program for the date, which will be announced soon. Casa Amarela is an education, art and social support center in Morro da Providência, which aims to collaborate in human and territorial development through education, art and culture, contributing to reducing the social impact caused and maintained by the lack of assistance from the state in the community. . Casa, founded in 2009 by French artist JR and Brazilian photographer Maurício Hora, leverages local projects and continues the legacy of the duo.
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