Biography

Brunn Morais (Brazil, born 1989) confronts the dominant representation of Roma identity through inverted sentences and quotations from decolonial theory in both his anthropological research and his interactive art installations made of mirrors.
His exhibited multi-part installation "Reflections", which is one of the latest acquisitions of Kai Dikha's collection, combines contemporary art and academic concepts in a series of installations that invite us to think about subalternity, marginalisation, intersectionality and standpoint theory. "Refelections" is based on the reading of "Can the Subaltern speak?" by the Indian author, scholar, literary theorist and feminist critic Gayatri Spivak (1985), who is a very important mastermind in the context of postcolonial studies. Against the universalism of hegemonic Western culture, Morais develops an expressive power based on a pluriversalism of Roma identity.

CV

2024
RʳOMA LEPANTO, Palazzo Bembo, Venedig, IT
2023
LORENZO ARMENDÁRIZ & BRUNN MORAIS. ANDAR PARA EXISTIR / LAUFEN, UM ZU EXISTIEREN
2022
YRA Young Romani Artists, Stiftung Kai Dikhas, Berlin , DE