Isadora Kerexu (Coletivo Aĩbu)

Kerexu is a young visual artist, currently based in Acre state, where she works with paint on canvas and develops projects with the Kayatibu group of young Huni Kuin artists. Matos’s mother is from Vale do Mucuri in Minas Gerais, which she escaped to São Paulo to raise her child away from the slave-like conditions that were imposed upon her as a teenager. At the age of 15, Kerexu developed a project together with the Guarani people in Tekoa Pyau village, which is the smallest demarcated indigenous land in Brazil, located in São Paulo, meaning it suffers from the spread of the city alongside many other results of colonisation. Through an event that combined participatory activities with raising donations of food and hygiene products, the group worked to increase the visibility of Indigenous people in the city – the city within the indigenous Territory. ...

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. ...