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The title of the exhibition refers to the 1965 composition by Heitor dos Prazeres, born in 1898 in Rio de Janeiro. An artist with diverse talents, coming from lower classes in the period after the abolition of slavery, he achieved great protagonism in the Brazilian cultural scene, contributing to visual arts,
music and fashion. He also worked to defend black life in a society that did not always recognize the Afro-Brazilian contribution as a relevant cultural manifestation, anticipating thoughts today known
as Afrocentricity, “black joy”, Pan-Africanism and “quilombismo”1.

In Heitor’s family, …