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CARURU is my tribute to home, memories, and ancestrality.
While playing in the streets of Bahia as a child, every 27th of September, I remember being suddenly invited in for a plate of caruru for seven boys in a Candomble house. The air would be filled with the scent of caruru, sweetness, and leaves. I would not know this then, but this was an ancestral scent.
Immersed in my recollections of the Bahian Reconcavo, I want to share these memories with you. CARURU is a series of paintings celebrating the childhood, joy, wealth, and abundance of the Ibejis, Cosme, and Damãio. This day is an homage to the vital energy of the Ibeji orixas, an homage to the duality of twins, and, most importantly, an homage to resistance. It is a beautiful reminder of the strategies and technologies my ancestors have used to ensure that I could have a taste, however small, of their own homelands. Much as I hope to give you a little taste of my own here.
CARURU
CARURU is my tribute to home, memories, and ancestrality.
While playing in the streets of Bahia as a child, every 27th of September, I remember being suddenly invited in for a plate of caruru for seven boys in a Candomble house. The air would be filled with the scent of caruru, sweetness, and leaves. I would not know this then, but this was an ancestral scent.
Immersed in my recollections of the Bahian Reconcavo, I want to share these memories with you. CARURU is a series of paintings celebrating the childhood, joy, wealth, and abundance of the Ibejis, Cosme, and Damãio. This day is an homage to the vital energy of the Ibeji orixas, an homage to the duality of twins, and, most importantly, an homage to resistance. It is a beautiful reminder of the strategies and technologies my ancestors have used to ensure that I could have a taste, however small, of their own homelands. Much as I hope to give you a little taste of my own here.