The Favelas Observatory, through the program Imagens do Povo (IP), opens this Thursday (20th), at 7 pm, the exhibition Faveladas, by artist Kamila Camillo. A resident of the Maré community, Kamila knows the region very well, with which she has a “horizontal relationship”, said the coordinator of the Imagens do Povo program, Érika Tambke. The free exhibition will be open to popular visitation at Gallery 535, until next June, bringing together 23 photos of the daily lives of women living in Maré, in the area known as Tijolinho. It was at the Tijolinho Housing Complex that most of the women were photographed. The idea is to ennoble these women and reverse the use and meaning of the word favelada. The gallery operates at the address of the Observatório de Favelas itself, Rua Teixeira Ribeiro, 535, Nova Holanda, in Maré. Visitation is from Monday to Friday, from 10 am to 7 pm. The Faveladas exhibition opens this year’s Gallery 535 program. The curatorship is by Jean Azuos and Rosilene Miliotti, both also born and raised in the community. Érika Tambke said that Kamila shares the look she has on these women who bring the beauty and strength of everyday life in the favela. “The photographer herself knows Maré in the first person, demonstrating her knowledge with different scenes, oscillating between ordinary days and parties”, said Érika. Psychologist, popular photographer, visual artist, social activist, communicator and founder of Crias do Tijolinho, Kamila Camillo produced, in 2018, the series of photographs of LGBTQIA+ couples, honored children with the Crias do Tijolinho exhibition, in addition to having created the Fat Women from Favelas project. In 2019, she attended the Elan training school, at Galpão Bela Maré. In the following years, she took part in group exhibitions, such as Candongas and Corpo Morada. In 2022, she held her first solo exhibition, Mulheres do Tijolinho. This year, the photographer participated in the group exhibition Negras Marés, at the Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica. Kamila stated that she believes in the power of the street, in the power of children, and also that art transforms lives. “That way, it transforms my life on a daily basis”. from the favela of Maré. “That was the beginning, with the Escola de Fotografia Popular da Maré, in 2004”, informed Érika. At the moment, the school is preparing this year’s class, which should begin activities on the 2nd. It will last for six months, with classes three days a week and on Saturdays, every two weeks. The class will have 40 students. new representations of popular spaces, helping to deconstruct stigmas related to these territories Marca Érika explained that the school has a lot to do with the method of João Roberto Ripper, who defends the idea of shared photography. “It’s a method for you to think about the material together with what is portrayed”. In the evaluation of the program coordinator, the images of the favela portrayed by the media are, in general, stereotyped, closely linked to violence and poverty. “Most people who live in the favela are workers, with their day to day life, which ranges from work to birthday parties, June festivals, Christmas, and other matters. The school starts from this point of view, that each person has their own story to tell. Over these years, I think this is also a hallmark of the project.” The School of Popular Photography is aimed at training professional photographers. “We can say very calmly that it is the only course with this intensity of workload, duration, focused on training in photography and human rights”. The number of trained photographers has now reached 300. All of them have had their work exhibited at the gallery. The Programa Imagens do Povo – Faveladas Exhibition is presented by the Ministry of Culture and Observatório de Favelas. Sponsored by Instituto Cultural Vale, Itaú Unibanco and White Martins, through the Federal Law of Incentive to Culture.
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