Homeland 2022 Master (AW2)
For the past nine years, Homelands has lived up to its name and its remit, welcoming original film and video artworks from all over the world, each of them exploring the nature of home and community, what it means to have or not have a home ‘land’ but also what it means to be human. This year artists also had the theme of 'Through Light and Shade' to respond to. The isolation wrought by the pandemic is visible in many of the entries, achieved through highly original computer-realized imagery, distorted, layered, glaring and interwoven as well as live performance and sometimes a stylized mix of the two.
For the past nine years, Homelands has lived up to its name and its remit, welcoming original film and video artworks from all over the world, each of them exploring the nature of home and community, what it means to have or not have a home ‘land’ but also what it means to be human.
This year artists also had the theme of 'Through Light and Shade' to respond to. The isolation wrought by the pandemic is visible in many of the entries, achieved through highly original computer-realized imagery, distorted, layered, glaring and interwoven as well as live performance and sometimes a stylized mix of the two.
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Thaís Muniz
Title of Film: Darling, Don’t Turn Your Back On Me
Length and Year: 7’49” (2021)
Artist Statement, Project
I am an interdisciplinary artist and designer interested in the Afro-diasporic connections,
identity, belonging, migration and displacement. My art practices emerge from the need
to shatter the status quo when it comes to the representation of Black bodies, to empower
and rescue identities & histories, build bridges and open conversations. I use textiles,
storytelling, interactive performances, audio-visuals, workshops and urban interventions
to share narratives from an anti-colonial perspective – connecting people and uplifting
histories. A form of ‘Culture in Action’, the participatory element of my practice is key,
through intimate practices with public exchange.
Since 2012 I have pioneered research on turbans and headwraps in Afro-Atlantic culture
and its place in art, politics and aesthetics, by creating Turbante-se, a movement and
platform that follows the mystery and beauty of turbans and headwraps in the
Afro-Atlantic diaspora. The movement explores traditions, meanings and usage of
these wearables as a tool and a connecting object. I’ve been working to empower
Black communities from all over the world with an array of practices and actions.
I’m Dublin-based since 2014, and my aim is to engage in interaction and dialogue –
propelling progressive narratives with a clear focus on those ignored or misrepresented
by art.
Credits
Direction, concept, text, video-performance and installation RHA Gallery, Dublin, 2021.
Text with notes from: Lino Bento, Nikki Moore, Jean-Pierre Ntezilyayo.
Photograph Director and Editor: Cristiane Schmidt.
Voices: Lino Bento, Kevin Raheem, Ellen Ballard, Maholin Navarro, Nikki Moore,
Reeta Cherie, Larissa Nascimento, Cintia Augusta, Priscila Altivo, Jean-Pierre Ntezilyayo,
Maria Mirza, Tatiana Santos, Zaïre, Pontso Mabuza, Vitor Hugo Silvestre, Thaís Muniz.
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