Making sense of Brazil at Maus Hábitos with the exhibit "Adorno Político"

The collective exhibit "Adorno Político" ["Political Adornment", free translation], curated by Tales Frey, inaugurates at Maus Hábitos, in Porto, on 15 November.

The exhibit displays a set of artwork by Brazilian artists that counterweights the way one looks at and makes sense of Brazil. The main goal of this event is to look at Brazil and understand it as one and only country, challenging to think of it "outside the box", through the work of artists such as André Parente, Andressa Cantergiani, Lenora de Barros, Lyz Parayzo, Nino Cais, Priscilla Davanzo, Rafael Bqueer, Suelen Calonga and Tiago Sant'Ana.

"How can we live in harmony in such a singular and distinctive society?", this is the question to be answered by the exhibit "Adorno Político", on show at Maus Hábitos, in Porto, from 15 November 2018 to 20 January 2019.

The answer is to be given by means of performance, body art, photos and videos.

In a statement, Maus Hábitos explains that the projects on show have appropriated social and political mores to subvert them; "Adorno Político" refuses the homogeneity of a neutralised mass by the tyranny of aesthetic and behavioural patterns, challenging us to think about the place left to individual identities and subjectivities in contemporary societies".

Parallel programming

Inaugurated on 15 November

9.30 pm- Performance: Manicure Política, by Lyz Parayzo

10 pm - Performance: Pour être une seductrice, by Priscilla Davanzo

Saturday, 17 November

5 pm - Lecture: A Vênus de Cor, by Lyz Parayzo

Saturday, 21 November

5 pm - Lecture: Um Corpo pra Chamar de Meu, by Priscilla Davanzo