Fabiana Ex-Souza

Afro-Brazilian performance artist Fabiana Ex-Souza has been living in Paris since 2010. She develops a transdisciplinary practice, combining performance, video, installation and photography, particularly interested in the use in her works of materials from the plant world. In 2014, attentive to issues related to the African diaspora, she gave herself the right, by poetic-political self-decree, to expunge her slave name, thus becoming Ex-Souza. After this founding moment, the processes of healing, inherited from her Amerindian grandmother, became for her a field of study and deepening to deploy an artistic practice linked to the ecology of care. In particular, she invests the notion of the « political body » in order to reflect on the re-actualization of archives, repairs, transmission and the processes of « transmutation » of what the artist calls « ghost objects ».

Fabiana Ex-Souza is currently completing a doctorate in Visual Arts and Photography at the University of Paris-VIII on the subject of Latin American decolonial aesthetics.

Selection of projects and solo exhibitions

2021

Performance Healing the White Gaze. Haven’t we done enough? festival « Afriques : Utopies performatives », Cité internationale des arts, Paris

Performance Ce qui fait jour, project  » TRANSformACTIONS et REgeneration  » organized by the Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care, exhibition Freedom of Sleep, Fondation Fiminco, Romainville

DOMUS Dialoghi sul Mediterraneo/The Last Supper Project residency, Galatina (Italy)

Winner of the « Mondes nouveaux » program of the French Ministry of Culture for the itinerant project Le Radeau, with João Vieira Torres and Calixto José Ramos Neto

Photo-Performance Several Coats to Bispo, imaginary exhibition « How ecofeminist artists regenerate the world » by AWARE art historians, Beaux-Arts Magazine, n°439, January

2020

Winner of the « The Good Life » award, organized by AWARE and CNAP, for the project Several Coats To Bispo

2018

Performance Prendre Corps, Maison de l’Amérique latine, Paris

2019

Performance Plusieurs Manteaux to Bispo, collective activation, carte blanche Afrikadaa  » L’Entre-deux monde, l’art comme arme de guérison « , Un lieu pour Respirer, Les Lilas

Performance Plusieurs Manteaux to Bispo – Collective embroidery, Atelier Médicis, Clichy-Montfermeil

Performance Plusieurs Manteaux to Bispo – Collective elevation, L’acte éditorial live Afrikadaa  » Quand les artistes dialoguent avec les ancêtres « , Centre Pompidou, Paris

Presentation of the video Navio-Ovni, cycle  » Afrocyberféminismes : Renouveau des technoféminismes « , La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris

Performative reading within the play Lettre à Lula, Théâtre Montfort, Paris

2017

Video installation De que cor você vê a minha aura? (What color do you see my aura?), carte blanche Afrikadaa « L’entre-deux mondes », Nuit des idées, La Colonie, Paris

Performance Prendre Corps, exhibition Transfert de Support (1) – Matière Revue, Les Grands Voisins, Paris

2016

Performance Les Corps dans le musée et le musée dans les corps, carte blanche Afrikadaa  » MUSÉE-L’ONT-L’EUX « , Centre Pompidou, Paris

2015

Performative reading Congadas, Afrikadaa white card, Soirées nomades of the exhibition Beauté Congo (1926-2015) – Congo Kitoko, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris