Arrière-Garde Blog
Art on Political Resistance through Nostalgia and Colour: Marcelo Amorim
Amorim's work represents an original counterpoint to practices that directly explore the theme of social minorities in Brazil, where recent radicalisation to the right has resulted in new waves of racism, homophobia, and discrimination against women. In other words, Amorim, instead of exploring the dimension of the dominated and issues such as the rights, the cultural histories and the need for emancipation of historically oppressed people, investigates - in an ironically caustic way - the ideology that shapes the ethics, the body and the vision of the dominant.