Jonathas de andrade biography of rory

Borrowing from storytelling, folklore, ethnography and anthropology, Jonathas de Andrade explores issues surrounding the colonial legacies of Latin America, its current brutalities and what the artist calls its ‘urgencies and discomforts’. O Peixe (The Fish) was made with a group of fishermen from Piaçabuçu and Coruripe in Brazil. We see them engaging in a ritual involving catching the fish, then tenderly holding their prey to their chests until they stop breathing. Commenting on human and natural relations, and an entanglement between expressions of care and suffocation, De Andrade also nods to exclusionary systems of narration and documentation that are imbricated in colonialist and ethnographic enterprises.

Jonathas de Andrade (b. , Maceió, Brazil) lives and works in Recife. He uses photography, installation and video to traverse collective memory and history, making use of strategies that shuffle fiction and reality. Jonathas collects and catalogues arch