CUBS is pleased to host at the next "Sarau da CUBS" the special exhibition "TIPOS", by Brazilian photographer Fernando Banzi.
Thursday, 28 April 2022, 7 pm at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.
Register (free of charge): https://bit.ly/3jDJEwl - link bio @cubsbrazil
In Tipos (Types), Fernando Banzi re-signifies the work of Alberto Henschel (1827-1882), a German-Brazilian photographer who documented all social extracts of 19th century Brazil. His "carte-de-visite" portraits were taken from the nobility, wealthy merchants, middle class, and black people enslaved and liberated during the period before the Golden Law (Lei Áurea).
Fernando Banzi's work focuses on reinterpreting Henschel's images of people of African descent and/or origin, dating from the late 1860s, made in Recife and Salvador. Tipos reworks the past through the pigmentation of portraits, giving back to these individuals the right to their subjectivity. The selection of images that compose this work presents black individuals with diverse characteristics already in the colonial period. His imaginative use of colour invites the viewer to question commonplace narratives about black men and women who were historically and structurally victims of unprecedented violence.
Fernando Banzi is a journalist, post-graduated in photography, member of Goma Oficina Plataforma Colaborativa and photography teacher at Senac São Miguel Paulista/ SP - for more information see here.