Body that flees fight and celebrates - 2015 - Performance art documented in photography
Diógenes M. Potiguara Niteroi - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A body turns its back on us, extending its whole being towards the inner backdrop of a dark wood. There is a performative quality to the work that asserts its own autonomy against the observer’s desire to see. Through this corpographic narrative of ‘the body on the run,’ we can trace
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how wounds persist but are also, in a cyclical fashion, healing. Diógenes is inspired by Grada Kilomba, Jota Mombaça and Pedra Costa de Solange tô Aberta. As a queer performing artist, Diógenes explores what it means to be
Indigenous and queer. By divulging the experiences of the anti-colonial body, Diógenes opens a discourse on displacement and resistance.
