Brazilian Cosmogonies: Revisiting the Concept of Memory
On October 4, 2025, Sophie Su invites the public to the opening of Brazilian Cosmogonies, an exhibition presented in collaboration with Natalie Seroussi as part of the France-Brazil Season. Conceived as a curatorial journey, the show intertwines modern and contemporary voices to explore how myths, memory, and identity continue to be shaped by the scars of colonization and the power of cultural reappropriation. Structured around cosmogonies, symbols, and vital forces, Brazilian Cosmogonies resonates with Indigenous cosmologies, Afro-descendant legacies, modernist reinterpretations, and contemporary expressions of ancestry. It proposes a visual and conceptual dialogue in which ancestral mythologies converge with avant-garde experimentation and living artistic practices. But to grasp the true stakes of this exhibition, one must return to the roots of Brazil itself.