The Brazilian artist, whose work is exhibited at Galerie Mendes Wood DM in Paris, expresses the body's perils and tensions in ...

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Yemanja is a central deity in the Afro-Brazilian religions of Candomble and Umbanda. Practitioners of these faiths have traditionally been and continue to be the target of discrimination and sometimes ...

Uruguayans pay tribute to Iemanja, the Goddess of the Sea in the Afro-Brazilian religion Umbanda, at Ramirez Beach in Montevideo. Meanwhile in Brazil, followers of the Candomble religion host a ...

Yemanja is a central deity in the Afro-Brazilian religions of Candomble and Umbanda. Practitioners of these faiths have traditionally been and continue to be the target of discrimination and ...

“Colonisation was a terrible thing. With music we hope we can take something that was very bad, to join the cultures of Africa and Europe and make something beautiful,” Alberto Becucci, a ...

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The dancers were dressed in clothes which combined harlequin rags, deliberately torn jeans, and leotards with great holes in them, these holes exposing random bits of naked body. This was all part of ...