Moisés Patrício: Terreiro as Method | Moderated by Tatiane Santa Rosa, PhD, Independent curator
We start the year with a special live featuring curator Tatiane Santa Rosa and artist Moisés Patrício, who will discuss the 36th São Paulo Biennial, titled “Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice,” which comes to a close this January.
The conversation departs from the central concept of this edition of the Biennial, which invites us to think of humanity as a living practice — built through relationships, listening, movement, coexistence, and care — bringing together curatorial and artistic reflections grounded in this experience.
The discussion will focus on the works by Moisés Patrício presented in this Biennial. Moisés will offer a brief contextualization of the terreiro as both a method and a space for the production of kknowledge and will reflect on how an Afro-diasporic worldview is inseparable from his artistic practice, shaping his processes and ways of being in the world.
On YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/live/0fR3prf1ooM
Friday, January 9
2:00 PM EST | 4:00 PM BRT (Brazil)
Join us live for this special conversation.
Tatiane Santa Rosa
Tatiane Santa Rosa has a PhD in Visual Studies from the History of Art and Visual Culture Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), where she is currently a Visiting Faculty member. Her dissertation investigated the representation of racial miscegenation and whiteness in transnational photographic practices of Brazilian contemporary artists.
She previously taught at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the San Francisco Art Institute and currently teaches at Foothill College. She is a co-founder and Executive Director of the Sunnyvale Youth Philharmonic, where she develops an interdisciplinary program for visual artists and young musicians. She was also Creative Director at AnnexB and served as an independent curator with The55Project Art Foundation.
She was a 2018-19 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program fellow and assistant editor of the BLUE/AZUL publication. She also holds an MFA from the Art Writing Master’s Degree Program at the School of Visual Arts (NY) and an MA in Art History from Sotheby’s Institute of Art (NY).
Moisés Patrício
Moisés Patrício (b. 1984, São Paulo) is a visual artist, photographer, and priest of an Afro-Brazilian tradition. His practice unfolds at the intersection of contemporary art, spirituality, and Black thought. Working across photography, painting, performance, and installation, Patrício takes the terreiro—understood as a space of community, knowledge production, and collective ethics—as the conceptual and methodological foundation of his research. His work investigates ancestry, belonging, and collective memory as living processes. He has participated in the Dakar Biennale and exhibited at institutions such as MASP, Museu Afro Brasil, and Instituto Pretos Novos. He is a member of the Artistic Council of the Pinacoteca de São Paulo.
