De Souza @bersouza is a Brazilian curator and art critic based in Madrid. He was the artistic director of Fundação Iberê Camargo, coordinator of Film, Video and Photography at Secretária de Cultura of Porto Alegre between 2005 and 2013, and co-curator of the 9th Biennial of Mercosul (Porto Alegre, 2013). Since then, he has been developing curatorial projects for different institutions in Brazil and around the globe.

In this interview for tropical papers, recorded in November 2021, de Souza talks about his practice as a curator and his research. Science fiction has always been central to his practice andis used as a language to navigate current political issues. In order to challenge a new perspective on identities, he plays with notions of abnormality and monstrosity, and explores space as a future dimension. De Souza shares his most recent projects such as “An Exhibition With Works by…” at the Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam and other projects in progress: window displays in the multicultural neighbourhood of Lavapiés in the Spanish capital, for instance.

POSTED: @tropicalpapers_18.12.2021