The Green and Yellow are Ours as Well
7. – 16. juni 2024
Velkommen til åpning fredag 7. juni kl. 18:00.
Utstillingen vises 7. – 16. juni.
Åpningstider: Kl. 12.00 – 16.00 onsdag, fredag, lørdag og søndag.
Torsdag kl. 12.00 – 20.00.
Lukket mandag og tirsdag.
Gratis adgang.
Opening on Friday, June 7 at kl. 18:00. Opening hours: 12:00 – 16:00.
Thursday 12-20
Closed on Monday and Tuesday
In the exhibition The Green and Yellow are Ours as Well, Nayara Leite will show a combination of old and new works. All the works are related to her long-term research about national symbols and the effects of Bolsonarismo in Brazil.
“In Search of Rainbows” (4K, 9 min) is a film that investigates the situation of the queer community in north-eastern Brazil when Jair Bolsonaro was the president, and how the national flag has become a symbol for the right-wing party. The work merges political views with Nayara’s experiences.
Her first rainbow flag is also part of the installation. By hanging the flag on a hammock hook in the exhibition room, she refers to her coming out story and how she dealt with her Catholic family.
“The Green and Yellow are Ours as Well” (which shares its title with the exhibition) was part of the last segment of Nayara’s four-year project “Meus Caros Amigos”. The work, consisting of a vinyl piece and three Brazilian football shirts, aims to reflect on how the nationalistic right-wing in Brazil appropriated the nation’s colours and symbols for their own cause.
With this work, she started the process of reclaiming these symbols – not only asherself but also as a part of a bigger community of marginalised Brazilians. The terms sapatão (dyke), viado (faggot) and travesti (a South American term for non-binary people, used as a political identity) – embroidered on the back of the shirts – are words that usually have a derogatory connotation, but that have been recently reclaimed by the queer community.
The new works will bring an update on the consequences of having had a homophobic and authoritarian politician for four years as Brazil’s president. Bolsonaro might be gone, but his supporters are doing what he preached: hate speech, violent acts, homophobia, transphobia and racism.
As an example, thousands of his supporters vandalised the National Congress in January 2023 because they didn’t accept him losing the elections. And just recently, a group of far-right politicians belonging to Bolsonaro’s party proposed a ban on same-sex marriage (which has been legal since 2011). The bill didn’t pass, but these politicians will keep trying. These new works are still in the developing phase.
