From late July through early November, Kunstraum Innsbruck shows the exhibition “Healing Technologies And Affections/Tọju Ati Awọn Imọ-Ẹrọ Iwosan” by Ayrson Heráclito.
In his exhibition Ayrson Heráclito reveals the crossing of Afro diasporic healing technologies, heritages of a cultural matrix, providing us with a decolonial path. It is through ancestral knowledge that the diasporic body resists colonial violence and ethnocide. The "yorubaian" universe is a transatlantic voyage that entails sophisticated tools (re)created in the Afro-Brazilian diaspora, which endure to this day as a cure for body, spirit, mind, and society.
Biography
Ayrson Heráclito is an Ogã of Jeje Mahi in Salvador (Bahia). He is a is a visual artist and curator and teaches at UFRB The Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia. He holds a PhD in Semiotics from PUC, The Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo and a MA in Visual Arts from The Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. His installations, performances, photographs and audiovisual works focus on elements from Afro-Brazilian culture and their connections between Africa and its diaspora in the Americas.
In his exhibition Ayrson Heráclito reveals the crossing of Afro diasporic healing technologies, heritages of a cultural matrix, providing us…
