About

Juntó

Ayrson Heráclito’s work derives from the idea of sacredness expressed in the rituals and symbology of the Candomblé , a religion he has been practicing for almost thirty years. Informed and instigated by the Afro-Brazilian cosmologies of Orishas and Voduns , especially from the Jeje-nagô tradition, the artist employs different languages in works that explore organic materials from these rites, used to their fullest plastic and representation potentials. He often draws on the performative aspects of the trance, of magical actions that evoke, purify and reorganize the energies, …