artefatos (artifacts) #5, 2019
silkscreen of instruments of torture and dermatographic pencil on bag used to transport grains between Africa and America
130 x 100 cm
photo Filipe Berndt
From screenprints applied on bags to transport grains between Africa and America, the series of works “Artifacts” reproduces drawings found Mali, the series of works “Artifacts” reproduces drawings found in reports of enslaved people who managed to escape from their owners. In much of these accounts, the methods of torture by which captured slaves were subjected were narrated. Commonly, these torments began with lashings and beatings, in order to be applied, in fragilized bodies, objects that would hinder new escapes. In the list of objects were chokers, bells, chains, weights, among others that denounced the new attempts to escape.
artefatos (artifacts) #6, 2019
silkscreen of instruments of torture and dermatographic pencil on bag used to transport grains between Africa and America
130 x 100 cm
photo Filipe Berndt
artefatos (artifacts) #7, 2019
silkscreen of instruments of torture and dermatographic pencil on bag used to transport grains between Africa and America
130 x 100 cm
photo Filipe Berndt
artefatos (artifacts) #1, 2016
silkscreen of instruments of torture and dermatographic pencil on bag used to transport grains between Africa and America
95 x 57 cm
photo Filipe Berndt
artefatos (artifacts) #2, 2016
silkscreen of instruments of torture and dermatographic pencil on bag used to transport grains between Africa and America
95 x 57 cm
photo Filipe Berndt
artefatos (artifacts) #3, 2016
silkscreen of instruments of torture and dermatographic pencil on bag used to transport grains between Africa and America
95 x 57 cm
photo Filipe Berndt
artefatos (artifacts) #4, 2016
silkscreen of instruments of torture and dermatographic pencil on bag used to transport grains between Africa and America
57 x 95 cm
photo Filipe Berndt