Fall Lecture - Gardens as a Caminho: Ancestral Plants as Strategy of Indigenous Critique in Contemporary Brazilian Art

FALL LECTURE: DR. PATRÍCIA DE NÓBREGA GOMES

Postdoctoral Scholar, UCLA

November 20th 2:00 PM - Humanities Gateway 1030

Gardens as a Caminho: Ancestral Plants as Strategy of Indigenous Critique in Contemporary Brazilian Art

Dr. Gomes examines how Indigenous artists Denilson Baniwa and urban Native Sallisa Rosa use ancestral plants during artistic residencies to grow gardens as temporary forms of land reclamation in major Brazilian cities, a strategy for decolonial activism and transformative dialogue.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies and the Department of Art History