Descortinar [belonging]

In this fifth episode of Descortinar, we evoke the number 5, stellar, which in turn evokes freedom, movement, internal and external journeys, drawers that open inwards, palm trees that walk and roots without romanticisation, but with wings. If belonging isn't simple and is strategic, it's a braid, a crossroads, where can olive trees come from? We started from the poem and the conversation with Raquel Lima and Shahd Wadi to create in the border a place to be, to stay and to wonder. Laroyê!  

Raquel Lima is a poet, art educator, transdisciplinary artist and researcher in Post-Colonial Studies, around orature, slavery and Afro-diasporic movements. With roots in Angola, São Tomé and Príncipe, Brazil, Senegal, Benin, Portugal, and wings in Europe, South America and Africa, where she has presented her work, most notably at FLIP, FLUP, the Venice Biennale, the São Tomé Biennale and the São Paulo Biennale. She launched the poetry book and audiobook "Ingenuidade Inocência Ignorância", and is one of the co-founders of UNA - União Negra das Artes. Her work is at the crossroads between academia, art and activism.

Shahd Wadi is Palestinian, among other possibilities, but freedom is above all Palestinian. She also tries to exercise her freedom in what she does, travelling between research, translation, writing, curating, performance and artistic consultancy. She sought out her resistances when writing her doctoral dissertation in feminist studies at the University of Coimbra, which served as the basis for the book "Corpos na trouxa: histórias-artísticas-de-vida de mulheres palestinianas no exílio" (2017). Her research deals with artistic narratives in the context of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and considers art to be a testimony to lives. Also of her own.