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The traditional knowledge of midwives and faith healers is starting to gain recognition and is being recovered, with new life, by the awakening of a new consciousness that goes hand in hand with a decline in consumption. Projects and brands are seeking more humanist values, prioritizing the reappropriation of women’s bodies, acceptance of organic processes, and reconnection with the sacred.
The chance to represent and include people who still do not occupy the space they deserve in campaigns and projects presents a great challenge. But it is precisely because it is so challenging that it is such a powerful opportunity to rethink creativity in Brazil. For those who see opportunity in this context, it is essential to understand that we need more than just inclusive discourse – we need inclusive practice, forging ties with the people who actually live these under-represented realities.
We are living in a transition between the end of the current economic model and the awakening of new economies. Access, community, purpose, reputation, transparency, trust: these are the foundations for building a new way of performing financial transactions — whether financial or otherwise — based on exponentially evolving technologies. This is blockchain.
This first step in researching other national aesthetic references is to expand the scenarios of study – that is, to recognize the streets, slums, hills, farms, streams, and forests. The answer to society’s wishes may just be in the rediscovery of everyday life, the familiar, and the ancestral. From this point of view, that which was peripheral becomes aspirational.
In its strength as a record and story of our culture, music is a language that helps us understand Brazilian behavior and conditions. In Brazil, music blurs the boundaries between the traditional and the cutting edge. Brazilian artistic expression, beyond the obvious social and geographical connections, brings unknown worlds closer together. The sound allows us to really feel the power of decentralization.
One of the calls of the 32nd São Paulo Biennial is to unlearn: to reflect and revise what it means to know and to value. A stroll through the exhibition space reveals the places that inspired artists in their works: in the countryside, on the river banks, and in plantations. The exhibition covers Brazil, the Americas, Africa, and so many of us who are uncertain and living in this contemporary world.
When demographic boundaries are not enough to classify a customer profile anymore, gender, age or income classification loses meaning