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Maxwell Alexandre

<p>Maxwell Alexandre’s ‘New Power’ series explores the idea of the Black community within the established temples of art: galleries and museums. Understanding contemporary art as an elite field that concentrates great financial and intellectual capital, ‘New Power’ seeks to draw the attention of the Black community to these spaces that legitimize narratives in history. The series employs only three basic signs, the Black (characters), within the white (or ‘white cube’), and the brown (paper). The kraft paper is a material Alexandre has employed since 2017 in his ongoing series ‘Pardo é Papel’ (Brown is paper). In addition to its potent aesthetic seduction, he realized the political and conceptual act articulated when painting black bodies on brown paper, as the term pardo has been used for a long time to veil blackness and mixed heritage.</p><p> </p><p>Maxwell Alexandre (b. 1990, in Rio de Janeiro) was born and raised in Rocinho, a favela that stands out for being the largest and most populous in all of Brazil. His career began as a professional skater and graffiti artist. His urban poetics consists in a construction of narratives and scenes based on daily experiences.</p>

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A Gentil Carioca

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