Deus é negra
Paste up poster
2018
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The work begins with the question: what if God were a Black woman? The piece proposes a radical shift in the dominant religious and symbolic imagination, challenging historical structures of power that associate divinity, purity, and authority with whiteness and masculinity.
Created over the photograph Mulher negra não identificada, by Alberto Henschel, the work establishes a critical dialogue with the historical archive, reactivating images produced under a colonial gaze and reinscribing them with new layers of meaning.
The intervention is also shaped by the recurrence of erasure and symbolic violence. Whenever installed in urban space, the work is vandalized within days or even hours, revealing the discomfort provoked by the mere possibility of this entity’s existence. The gesture exposes how the presence of a Black female body in the place of the sacred still generates rejection, censorship, and denial.
