Francesca Cavallo
A platform and annual programme for ecologically minded, de-colonial and intersectional art practices across Brazil and the UK
Brazil Footprint returns in 2023 with new collaborations with extraordinary artists, filmmakers and researchers from Brazil. The programme, which started in April with a workshop at the University of Manchester with Daiara Tukano and Marilene Ribeiro, continues through June with a new collaboration with Wapichana Artist Gustavo Caboco, The Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research at the British Museum and Holmleigh Primary School, and the Amazonian Film Festival curated by Vanessa Gabr
Supported by the British Council, Brazil Footprint and Holmleigh Primary School are participating in the project Strengthening the Threads(Fortalecendo os Fios) by Gustavo Caboco, an artist from the Wapichana Indigenous communities of Amazonia, who is visiting the UK for a residency at the British Museum. Taking Wapichana traditional weaving objects at the Museum as its starting point, the collaboration project focuses on stitching and embroidery as an art form and a way to recover and strengthen our roots.
Francesca Cavallo