{"id":14929,"date":"2026-05-21T16:48:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ensapc.fr\/?page_id=14929"},"modified":"2026-05-21T17:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:10:17","slug":"nego-fugido-quilombola-memories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ensapc.fr\/en\/ygrec\/archives\/2025-2\/nego-fugido-quilombola-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"NEGO FUGIDO, QUILOMBOLA MEMORIES"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”13499″ img_size=”Large” alignment=”center” css=””][vc_column_text css=””]The banana tree leaves used in the Nego Fugido<\/em> are symbolic elements linked as much to ancestry as they are to the violence of slavery. Nicola Lo Calzo, City of Acupe. 2022. Nego Fugido<\/em><\/strong> series.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]NEGO FUGIDO, QUILOMBOLA MEMORIES<\/strong>
\nMonographic exhibition curated by Nicola Lo Calzo at the\u00a0Centre d’art Ygrec-ENSAPC<\/p>\n

From June 5 to July 12, 2025<\/strong>
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Ashes and fire<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nicola Lo Calzo’s exhibition,\u00a0Nego Fugido, Quilombola memories, offers a sensitive and committed immersion into a process of reaffirming freedom.<\/p>\n

Every year, in the Quilombola community\u00a0[1]\u00a0of Acupe, Brazil, the\u00a0Nego Fugido\u00a0takes place: a ritual performance that re-enacts the dehumanization of slavery and the struggle of enslaved subjects for emancipation. Like\u00a0tableaux vivants, this\u00a0mise en sc\u00e8ne\u00a0brings to life an embodied memory of oppression and resistance from the point of view of those who had been subjugated.<\/p>\n

Contrary to the dominant narratives, Nego Fugido\u00a0constructs a sovereign counter-narrative, which is carried by those whose history has long been denied or erased. Through this practice, the community reappropriates its past, revisits it in the light of the present, and proposes a more complex reading of its colonial heritage, which is still alive in Brazil as it is elsewhere. The performance of\u00a0Nego Fugido\u00a0thus acts as an act of memorial mediation, at the crossroads of art, politics, spirituality and transmission. And collectively asks us: What voices shape our historical memory? Who decides which narratives form the basis of a nation?Through exhibiting this practice, the artist-researcher Nicola Lo Calzo reveals an often unspoken aspect of history: a memory that is not fixed, that is not written down in books, but which is expressed through bodies, gestures, songs and rituals. This series is part of the KAM project, which was initiated in 2010.\u00a0 This project explores Atlantic memories of slavery and the forms of resistance that emerged from them. Lo Calzo’s approach is always one of attentive co-creation. It is far removed from any voyeuristic or exoticizing posture. His work is rooted in a relationship of listening and collaboration with the community, aimed at creating common ground.<\/p>\n

In the exhibition, the strata of memory and spirituality take shape through a visual constellation: photographs, videos, sound recordings, archives and symbolic objects interact to convey the depth of this practice. Exu is a complex figure in Afro-Brazilian cults and drives\u00a0 the central theme of the exhibition. This deity is a unifying element that the public follows throughout the exhibition. Exu is associated with the\u00a0Nego Fugido\u00a0and presents himself as a personification of defiance, as well as an intermediary between gods and men.<\/p>\n

Nego Fugido\u00a0is a space for reinventing the past, it is an act of self-determination in the face of the paternalistic discourses of so-called racial democracy or the stereotypical representations conveyed through a fa\u00e7ade of multiculturalism. By way of images and installations, this exhibition invites us to take a fresh look at the history of slavery and its contemporary resonances. As part of the Brazil – France 2025 Season, we want to deepen the dialogue between these two cultures and help build a collective memory that is plural, living and deeply rooted in the realities of the communities that bear it.<\/p>\n

Ioana Mello, exhibition curator<\/p>\n

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[1] A quilombo refers to a community formed by escaped slaves in remote regions, such as the Amazon rainforest or the sert\u00e3o.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”13501″ img_size=”Medium” alignment=”center” css=””][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n

Zoio, member of the Nego Fugido<\/em>. Nicola Lo Calzo, City of Acupe, Bahia, 2022. Nego Fugido<\/em><\/strong> series.<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]This exhibition, in collaboration with\u00a0Associa\u00e7\u00e3o\u00a0Cultural\u00a0Nego Fugido, is the result of research carried out between 2022 and 2025 as part of Nicola Lo Calzo’s doctorate at the Humanities, Creation and Heritage Research School of CY Cergy Paris Universit\u00e9 in partnership with ENSAPC (under the direction of Sylvie Brodziak and Corinne Diserens). This thesis continues a long-term photographic project on the memories and survivals of colonial slavery and its resistance in Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas and Europe, which began in 2011: the KAM project. Using a queer and intersectional approach, this project seeks to raise the central question of postcolonial representations within artistic practice, particularly when the artist operates and intervenes in contexts still marked by social inequalities and the after-effects of colonial history.<\/p>\n

On the occasion of the Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire Cycle organized by the City of Aubervilliers as part of the National Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade, Slavery and their Abolition, 10 photographs by Nicola Lo Calzo will be displayed on billboards throughout Aubervilliers for the duration of the exhibition.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”13503″ img_size=”Medium” alignment=”center” css=””][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n

Mestre Douglas,\u00a0Xang\u00f4 Fire\u00a0<\/em>(Fogueira de Xang\u00f4 in portuguese), Nicola Lo Calzo,\u00a0Acupe, 2022.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Nego Fugido<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0series.<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]This exhibition, in collaboration with\u00a0Associa\u00e7\u00e3o\u00a0Cultural\u00a0Nego Fugido, is the result of research carried out between 2022 and 2025 as part of Nicola Lo Calzo’s doctorate at the Humanities, Creation and Heritage Research School of CY Cergy Paris Universit\u00e9 in partnership with ENSAPC (under the direction of Sylvie Brodziak and Corinne Diserens). This thesis continues a long-term photographic project on the memories and survivals of colonial slavery and its resistance in Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas and Europe, which began in 2011: the KAM project. Using a queer and intersectional approach, this project seeks to raise the central question of postcolonial representations within artistic practice, particularly when the artist operates and intervenes in contexts still marked by social inequalities and the after-effects of colonial history.<\/p>\n

On the occasion of the Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire Cycle organized by the City of Aubervilliers as part of the National Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade, Slavery and their Abolition, 10 photographs by Nicola Lo Calzo will be displayed on billboards throughout Aubervilliers for the duration of the exhibition.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n

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