Ancestralidade, Ação e Imaginação

Since its creation in April 2021, UNA has been dedicated to promoting the self-empowerment of black professionals in the arts in Portugal. The act of mapping our own narratives is a political gesture as part of the anti-racist struggle, which aims to transform not only the artistic field, but society in general, expanding more democratic practices in power structures, both public and private, which perpetuate the exclusion of black artists and other professionals. In this way, UNA sees self-mapping as a tool for struggle that transcends the personal sphere, but rather as a collective action that drives systemic changes, promoting a fairer and more representative society. Fifty years after the Revolution and three years since its creation, the UNA has been invited to participate in the DDD on April 25, 2024. The day will be divided into three parts, from which we intend to think about the arts, the city, corporealities, discourses, programming as possibilities for creating new narratives and forms of imagination either through re-signification or fictionalization. — UNA–União Negra das Artes

Part 3 of 3

Installation/Celebration

An art installation at Circolando - Central Elétrica marks the final stage of UNA's event in this edition of DDD. We invited Fayxka and Maya Maiato to collaborate with UNA in the construction of a work that is aligned with the Association's objectives of producing an automapping for the arts. Included in the theme of revolution, the work is intended to be an immersive experience that will bring up and imagine paths, projections, roots, the creation of new futures, new worlds and possibilities from the projected three-dimensionality. Fayxka and Maiato are artists who use 3D modeling as a form of artistic expression. By linking technical knowledge of drawing and sculpture to notions of light, shadow, depth and perspective, the artists propose an aesthetic experience that not only promotes futuristic enjoyment, but also offers the public contact with one of the most promising techniques in contemporary artistic production. The fine detailing they produce signals how committed the artists are to an aesthetic topology that heralds a future that has already arrived. It is in this sense that the work closes UNA's participation in DDD 2024: a way of projecting the presence of black artists in the future that is wanted for the arts and the affirmation of 3D as a fruitful field. We closed the day with a DJ set by Soundpreta. — UNA–União Negra das Artes