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On the occasion of Art Brussels WEEK and Antonio Obá's first solo exhibition in Belgium, we are delighted to present an online extension of Obá's physical show at Mendes Wood DM Brussels, highlighting his works on paper. Antonio Obá experienced from a very young age the friction between his Catholic upbringing and his African origins. The artist departs from his body and his own personal experience to question the foundations of ‘official’ Brazilian culture and art history, which deliberately erased the production of black and indigenous populations for centuries. Obá’s practice …