黑料不打烊

The choice of the term "mission" to designate the works Cropped (2020), Altar (2021), Capela (2022) and now Reparti莽茫o (2022/2023), comes from the vocabulary commonly used by Edu de Barros and Raoni Azevedo, both members of the aesthetic-religious organization ANoiva 鈥� Igreja do Reino da Arte.

There is an unmistakable accuracy to this choice of term. If, for both Catholic and Protestant missiology, missions involve calls, territories and objectives, the same can be seen in these projects.

Jointly developed by Azevedo and de Barros, the installations emerged from invitations and/or opportunities; they involved and responded (from a physical, historical and symbolic point of view) to specific spaces and institutions, and also carried a clear intention: to create, in places of worship of art, friction with the artistic repertoire of religiosities.

Missionaries, the artists subscribe to the tradition of religious iconographies, inhabiting the complex territory that has been shared 鈥� and disputed 鈥� for millennia between art and sacredness.

With different practices, it is mainly in this convergence that Edu de Barros and Raoni Azevedo meet: they collaborate not only through their specific technical knowledge (painting, design, architecture), but mainly through interests, studies and practices that, in the (mis)encounters between art and faith, they have collectively cultivated.