Iagor Peres

Lives and works in Recife, State of Pernambuco, Brazil

Artist statement

Materially situated in the friction of languages like sculpture, installation and performance, I’m thinking about visible and invisible densities that compose relationships in space. I’ve been working around the question of western-white-supremacy over other bodies, bringing focus to the performativities of these corporealities, which are not commonly seen as life. For this, I start from the experience as a racialized body to think about what happens when subjectivities that were allocated in history within the category of object, thing or abject, as in the case of black and indigenous enslaved people, start to inhabit and claim their places and positions as Life. And what this movement suggests about the possibility of a structural review of our relations with the Things. I am interested in thinking about how to transform these notions of Things and modify the process of categorizing bodies in the world. For that, I look at this invisible layer that exists between me and the world (racialization) and the historical reality of the commodity that spoke - workers who were treated as commodity (things) before - in order to search for tools and processes that can dismantle the ethics that still sustain and propagate racial violence.

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