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The Sun of the Colored Peoples: Edival Ramosa in the Diaspora
André Pitol
It is not by chance that Edival Ramosa’s New Totemic Construction sketch was made during a time of intense debate within the arts about what was considered “constructive” in Brazil and abroad. But Ramosa, with his proposition for a “new totemic construction,” was not trying to join that white lineage of geometric abstraction; he was rather thinking about the racial complexity of abstraction and how race’s structural relations could be expressed in a structurally ascendent—totemic—way.
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 5, 2024
Category
Sculpture, Latin America
Subjects
Diaspora, Europe, Africa