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A Gentil Carioca is pleased to announce “My Black Utopia”, the first exhibition by the artist O Bastardo at A Gentil Carioca São Paulo, opening on November 9th, Saturday, from 2pm to 7pm. The critical text is signed by Lilia Schwarcz, who points out:

“My Black Utopia is therefore about black protagonism. It cannot be reduced to just ‘grab and copy’, as O Bastardo says; rather, it is ‘grab and project to another horizon’, as in Plato’s ‘Allegory of the Cave’. In this text, the philosopher shows how people shackled in place since childhood believed that the shadows projected on the walls were …