Corrosive Beauty in the media
Beleza Corrosiva at FGV Arte (RJ). Curated by Ailton Krenak and Paulo Herkenhoff Launched in April 2025 as part of the exhibition Movimentos Miméticos (CCBB – São Paulo), Beleza Corrosiva…
Writing
Carnivores
Marianne North (1839-1890) was an English botanical artist, who was born a day before my sister's birthday (October 24) and died a day after mine (August 30) 💚. With a very particular…
Mandrakes and Belladonnas
Mandrakes and Belladonnas are relatives, cousins of eggplants and tomatoes, bound by shared prejudices and powers within the vast Solanaceae family. Bearing the cure in the etymology of…
The Pandemic of Images: Visual and Biopolitical Rhetorics of a World Marked by COVID-19
Abstract:The coronavirus pandemic is also a pandemic of images proliferating through thermal cameras, intimacy turned outward in videoconferences, projections on façades, and countless…
Smart Cities, Smart Virus: Technoutopias of the New Normal
Another version of this textAbstractThis article analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on urban culture, emphasizing biopolitics, and new forms of body control that have spread worldwide due to…
Smart Cities, Smart Virus: Techno-utopias of the New Normal
EnglishAbstract:This article analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on urban culture, focusing on the biopolitics and new forms of bodily control that spread worldwide with the pandemic. At this…
The Truths of Deepfakes
The Truths of Deepfakes: The use of artificial intelligence has been blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction, making it increasingly difficult to verify the authenticity of…
Experimental Preservation to Uninvent Tradition
This article presents works developed over the past five years in the field of the aesthetics of memory, operating at the interface between art and historical heritage. They are: Memória da…
Memento Mori: The National Museum and the Archive Without a Museum
An analysis of the Instagram hashtag #museunacionalvive as a collective memorialGiselle Beiguelman and Natalia LavigneAbstract:This article examines visual content shared on Instagram about…
Aesthetics of Coronasurveillance: Heat Maps and the Biopolitics of the Painless
This essay addresses the aesthetics of surveillance in the context of the coronavirus (coronasurveillance), focusing on heat maps and their biopolitics. Below are excerpts published in the…