Lara de Passos in conversation with Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann

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Join us for an in-conversation event with Lara de Paula Passos, marking her first solo exhibition, Archeopoetic Fragments: An Afrofuturist Gaze on Converging Times and Territories in the Diaspora.

Working through collage and poetry, Passos reflects on her practice as an archaeologist and multimedia artist, engaging water as memory, technology, and method. The conversation will explore how her work operates as a counter-archive—responding to the violent imperial and colonial visual, textual and material regimes that have historically produced and policed representations of the African-descendant experience—while drawing on ancestral technologies, diasporic aesthetics, and Afrofuturist imagination.

Moving across time and space, the dialogue will consider water as a site of rupture, passage, resistance, return and healing, from the Atlantic world to the embodied present. Rooted in the crossroads of Afro-Brazilian experience, this conversation invites reflection on fragments, memory, and ancestral knowledge as living, creative technologies—fluid and collective—always being and becoming.

Featured Artist: Lara de Paul Passos