©evarocha #EvaRocha #artist #brazilian #contemporaryartists #women_artists #latinx__artist #biboc_artist #artistas_do_Brasil

Father and Mother- I am cabocla

Unfamiliar portrait with mother and father

Latina. I used to have a nonprofit to promote Latinx Art and take art programs to marginalized Latino communities. I fought for inclusion and to open for fair conditions to participate. I advocated for what I believed that, art, as a place of participation and dialogue should be acessive to all groups. Talent is not privilege, but conditions to participate in the arts is.

“Ode to the object” [auction of an object]

…Ode to an object. How does the art of our time relates to the issues of our time? How does the non-participation of many groups in the arts relates to the issues affecting peer population? [Can the vulnerability of an artist be a material?] How to appropriate your narrative surged from a place of vulnerability without yourself becoming vulnerable? How to not be vulnerable when your narrative is appropriated against your own narrative and you become the object? How to not be vulnerable in an environment where your agency is necessary to survive? That which is the object and the object. ©evarocha #EvaRocha #artist #brazilian #contemporary #womenartist #latinxartist #bibocartist #emergingartist #artistas_do_Brasil

There are many Eva Rocha [s] in the web [and in me]. This one is me, I think...

I was born in a 3 streets, 9 blocks town in Brazil. Itacolomy as it was called was not in the map. It is now, and it has a “touristic attraction site” -this photo. It is now called Novo Itacolomi (New itacolomi). The word Itacolomy, by the way, means Beautiful Rock in the native language of Brazil. There were no galleries or museums in Itacolomy. But yes, there was Art. An art that was genuine to place and collective expression. And what is that which is called art? Who were those that decided what art is? What is implicit in the art dialogue - if there is one. Who are the ones who decide who has the right to participate in the arts, in the arts’ dialogue? Art creation is not a privilege. Art is an atemporal own alphabet of any so-called-culture. Art exists prior to definitions of culture or art.