Malba inaugurates the 2024 exhibition calendar with Rosana Paulino. Amefricana , the most complete exhibition held outside Brazil of this artist born in São Paulo in 1967. The exhibition brings together a set of works made over 30 years, between 1994 and 2024, from the perspective that the Atlantic inscribes in Afro-descendant America. . In her installations, drawings, engravings, embroidery and sculptures, Paulino addresses the slavery and violence of the African diaspora in Brazil as the central axis of his practice, which in addition to being artistic is also pedagogical and militant. A versatile creator, she explores various techniques, with a special attachment to graphics and drawing. Through specific operations (such as suturing, sewing and the use of the file, among others), she critically traverses the history of Brazil, problematizing the ethnic construction of the nation. Paulino's poetic interventions reinscribe the archives of the African diaspora in South America. They do so from the constant dialogue between personal archives, historical archives, reconceptualizations of Brazilian art, interrogations of the matrices of Western science (its classification systems, its hypotheses, its ways of ordering the world) and also from an approach to the affections and circumstances of black women in Brazilian and Latin American society. The exhibition proposes a journey to address these concepts from a complex and deeply affective poetics. It includes five large installations, along with drawings, engravings and a video. It is organized into four large nuclei (“Atlantic Memories”, “The Colonial Structures of Science”, “The Narratives of Brazilian Art” and “Tissues of Subjectivity”) that are not separate areas, but rather axes of meaning that cross almost all of them. the works of Paulinus. The title Amefricana derives from the concept of “Amefricanidad”, coined by the Brazilian philosopher, black activist, feminist and sociologist Lélia Gonzalez (1935-1994). “African” are the individual identities, structured in the collective experience, of those who share cultural ties contrary to colonial rule. The term includes particularities of the figure of the black woman and highlights her active participation in history, unlike other racist and sexist narratives that diminish or suppress her importance. Curators: Andrea Giunta and Igor Simões.