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The Modernity of Niobe Xandó

It is not by chance that Niobe Xandó got interested by Bahia’s artistic research context in the end of 1950’s, where she had a solo show at Belvedere da Sé gallery. At that time, the city was an important reinvention center of Brazil’s Africanity, calling the attention of many artists and intellectuals. This process of “Northeastification of the modernism” which lasted many decades, led to the confrontation of three lines of force; the official during the dictatorship, with the aim to promote images of Afrobrazility in order to attract the tourism; the militancy …