{"id":63597,"date":"2022-03-29T20:28:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T20:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63597"},"modified":"2022-03-29T20:28:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T20:28:09","slug":"aline-motta-and-the-personal-diving-into-collective-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63597","title":{"rendered":"Aline Motta and the personal diving into collective memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artebrasileiros.com.br\/art\/aline-motta-and-the-personal-diving-into-collective-memory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Aline Motta and the personal diving into collective memory<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artebrasileiros.com.br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ARTE!Brasileiros<\/a><br \/>\n2020-03-18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/marcos.grinspumferraz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Marcos Grinspum Ferraz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/artebrasileiros.com.br\/art\/aline-motta-and-the-personal-diving-into-collective-memory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 98%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/artebrasileiros.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Aline-Motta-Pontes-sobre-Abismos-17.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption style=\"font-size: x-small; width: 98%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\">&#8220;Pontes sobre Abismos #17&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/alinemotta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aline Motta<\/a>, <em>Foto: Cortesia da artista<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>The multimedia artist, one of the winners of the 7th Marcantonio Vila\u00e7a Award, departs from a thorough research on his family history to address major topics such as slavery, African heritage and a patriarchal structure that remains in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brazil<\/a> today<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The journey of artist <a href=\"http:\/\/alinemotta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aline Motta<\/a> looking for her roots and the vestiges of her ancestors is undoubtedly a personal endeavour. The result, however, concerns the collective memory of thousands of Brazilian families built (or destroyed) in the violent process of the country\u2019s formation, based on slavery and patriarchal structure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt took a while for me to acquire some maturity and psychic centering to deal with issues so deep and difficult that concern my own history and family,\u201d she says in an interview with <em>ARTE!Brasileiros<\/em>. This maturation time included not only some early artwork that dealt with other topics, carried out especially from the beginning of this decade, but also a vast trajectory as a continuist in movies, which commenced in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>It was from 2016, when she had the project <em>Pontes sobre Abismos<\/em> (Bridges over Abysses) selected by Ita\u00fa Cultural\u2019s Rumos program, that Motta, now 45, began to devote herself full-time to authorial work, with a multimedia production that did not leave aside cinema, but also unfolded in installations, photographs, texts, publications and performances&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"https:\/\/artebrasileiros.com.br\/art\/aline-motta-and-the-personal-diving-into-collective-memory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The multimedia artist, one of the winners of the 7th Marcantonio Vila\u00e7a Award, departs from a thorough research on his family history to address major topics such as slavery, African heritage and a patriarchal structure that remains in Brazil today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,83,21,459,13743,8],"tags":[33358,33356,33357],"class_list":["post-63597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-history","category-interviews","category-media-archive","tag-aline-motta","tag-artebrasileiros","tag-marcos-grinspum-ferraz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63598,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63597\/revisions\/63598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}