Aislan Pankararu

Aislan Pankararu’s Indigenous Brazilian heritage is an intrinsic element of his practice. Paying homage to his origins, when making his paintings and drawings, he combines his own personal memories of his upbringing in Pernambuco with the inherited tales and customs of previous generations. Using the detailed markings and iconography of the Pankararu people as a rich pool of inspiration, he layers acrylic paints on kraft paper or canvas, inscribing these gestures with accents of permanent marker or darker hues of paint. Representing a yearning for belonging, the resulting pieces are dynamic, celebratory, and poetic. Pankararu speaks of the therapeutic effect of his practice, as his works craft space for him to cherish and commemorate his ancestry, whilst the canvas also serves as a surface to communicate the isolation experienced by Indigenous peoples living in contemporary Brazil. ...

Radicants is an international curatorial cooperative, created in 2022 by Nicolas Bourriaud. Global in vision and scope, Radicants is designed as an organic and nomadic cooperative model, in phase with the evolution of the art world. The platform conceives innovative exhibitions, imagined by independent curators at the international level. Radicants specialises in exhibition production, cultural engineering, publications, and the sale of exhibitions and artworks. Radicants collaborates with the different actors in the art sector: galleries, public and private institutions, collections, among others. Its mission is to offer cutting-edge exhibitions and to showcase emerging artists as well as those who have been overlooked in the history of art. Radicants is also a publishing house. The core team of Radicants is composed of Nicolas Bourriaud, Kuralai Abdukhalikova, Barbara Lagié and Cyrille Troubetzkoy. ...