Blog #Barcelona

capoeira

It is common to see groups of people playing capoeira in Olinda, whether in Alto da Sé or on the beach... but when I went to Barcelona, I didn't imagine seeing it, especially during the first walk to Iemanjá in the Catalan city. It was like being at home. I already had the Veste Branco project in progress, and I photographed the capoeira circles because they were part of that procession, which at times was stopped for some people from capoeira groups made up of Brazilians and Spaniards from the city. When I went back and looked at the images calmly, some were kind of abstract, the bodies looked amorphous, and I wanted to try more of this other way of seeing the body. Be it multiple, or deconstructed, cut, recreated. So I'd like to share some of these images, and their ramifications.