Seeing Through Stone: Sonny Trujillo’s Voice from Within
Remy Francisco, October 25, 2024 At 63 years old, Sonny Trujillo stands upon a collapsed prison surveillance tower. He paces five steps...
Frente 3 de Fevereiro is a Brazilian collective founded in 2004 following the murder of Flávio Ferreira Sant’Ana, a Black dentist, by São Paulo military police. Based in São Paulo, the group uses different artistic languages to denounce the brutal situation faced by racialized people in Brazil while creating a new reality. During this conversation, Frente 3 de Fevereiro members, Daniel Lima, Eugênio Lima, and Felipe Teixeira, will discuss Ancestral Intelligence, 2023-2024 a work on view in Seeing through Stone that uses AI as a counter-technology through which, Maurinete Lima, a Black feminist liberation leader is re-embodied and brings ancestral wisdom to current and future struggles.
Image: Frente 3 de Fevereiro, Ancestral Intelligence, 2023-24. Photography by Daris Jasper @culturesaving.
Daniel Lima is an artist, curator, editor, and researcher. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology, and a PhD in Audiovisual Media and Processes from the University of São Paulo, where he is part of the LabArteMídia laboratory. Since 2001, he has been creating investigative actions in research related to media, racial issues, collective resistance, colonial present, and geopolitical analysis. He is a founding member of several collectives, including Frente 3 de Fevereiro, with works developed in various cities around the world. He has received numerous awards in the fields of Visual Arts, Cinema, and Social Studies. He has participated in several national and international exhibitions, festivals, and seminars. He is the director of the production company, publishing house, and game studio, Invisíveis Produções. www.danielcflima.com
Eugênio Lima is a Dj, Actor-Mc, Researcher of Afro diasporic culture, founding member of the Núcleo Bartolomeu de Depoimentos da Frente 3 de Fevereiro, and Director of the Coletivo Legítima Defesa Winner of the Shell Theater Award for Best Music 2020, for “Terror and Misery in the Third Millennium.” Winner of the Coca Cola/FENSA 2004 award, for best music, for the play “Acordei que Sonhava”, winner of the 2006 Shell Theater Award for Best Music for Frátria Amada Brasil-Pequeno Compendium of Urban Legends” and the 2014 State Governor award with the Núcleo Bartolomeu de Depoimentos for “Antígona Recortada-Contos que Cantam Sobre Pousos Pássaros. Trainer in the area of sound design at SP Escola de Teatro from 2010 to 2019.
Felipe Teixeira – DJ Fatah: DJ, municipal civil servant and member of Frente 3 de Fevereiro. Bachelor in International Relations and Master in Economics. He has been an active urban music DJ in São Paulo’s night life for 7 years and is currently resident DJ at Súbete, the biggest Reggaeton party in Brazil. He has also played in important Latin American venues such as Perro Negro in Medellín, Boom Bastik at El Marchante in Caracas and El Candelario in Bogotá.
