Da galpao de Dona Ana a carancas - em Petrolina
Yann Beauvais Frankreich 2003 |
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Weltvertrieb: Light Cone, 12 rue des Vignoles, |
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Dona Ana das Carrancas ist eine Künstlerin
von etwa achtzig Jahren, die ihr Leben lang carrancas hergestellt
hat, Figuren aus gebranntem Ton, ähnlich den hölzernen Galionsfiguren,
die früher am Bug von Schiffen angebracht waren, um Dämonen und
Räuber abzuschrecken. Als schwarze Künstlerin, die in ärmlichen
Verhältnissen lebt, war Dona Ana stets ein politisch denkender Mensch.
Nicht das Ungewöhnliche des Ortes selbst oder ihr Verhalten zogen mich
in Bann, sondern Fragen, die die Strukturierung des visuellen Raums und
seine Nutzung betrafen. Dona Ana's studio lies in Petrolina, a city in north-eastern Brazil, where she is speaking to her friend Edson Barrus, who is copying documents for her while I film in the courtyard. The courtyard opens out into one of the citys access roads. It's 42°C. Dona Ana das Carrancas is an artist in her eighties. All her life she has made 'carrancas', fired clay figures inspired by the wooden figureheads that used to adorn the bows of ships to ward off demons and robbers. A black artist living in impoverished surroundings, Dona Ana was always politically-minded, actively in-volved in education and literacy campaigns as well as the spread of popular culture, even though she too is illiterate. I was gripped not so much by the strangeness of this place or the behaviour of these two people than by questions about how this visual space was structured and used, or rather, how cognitive surroundings are changed when a space is sliced up in a very specific manner. Yann Beauvais, geb. 1953. Filmemacher und Filmkritiker, Videokünstler und Ausstellungskurator in Paris. |
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