OS ENCANTADOS

^{In “Os Encantados” (The Enchanted Ones in English), Romane Iskaria describes the lives of the descendants of the Quilombo communities who reside in a sacred area called the Land of Jurema, in the northeast of Brazil. The Quilombos are communities formed by enslaved black people who fled to remote and unclaimed lands. Even today, they are affected by the lingering aftereffects of colonialism and fight for the preservation of their land and ancestral culture. As the writer Sandro Guimarães de Salles describes in his book “A sombra da Jurema encantada”, the Land of Jurema is a place of spiritual importance where the veil between worlds is porous, the author speaks of “invisible cities” listing ten sacred places in the Nordeste region.

Through encounters related to her own heritage, Romane Iskaria deploys the notion of territory as a space for gathering, holding and sharing, to reflect on cohesion and challenge dominant narratives. Romane transmits Jurema’s visual vibration by traversing these inaccessible territories, transcending the boundary between physical and intangible, their spiritual experiences are envisioned as individual but collectively shared spaces, from which they cannot be deprived. , a spiritual invocation practiced by this population of the Northeast, Brazil, who are denied the possibility of defining themselves culturally and geographically. As inaccessible territories, transcending the boundary between physical and intangible, their spiritual experiences are envisioned as individual but collectively shared spaces, from which they cannot be deprived.

Ongoing project, Condé Paraíba Brasil, 2024.}

^{Exhibition view Os Encantados, .TIFF 2024 Emerging Belgian Photography, Installation of photography and video, FOMU Antwerp (BE) 2024.}

^{2024 .tiff Emerging Belgian Photography in BrakkeGrond Amsterdam Netherlands during UNSEEN Art Photo Fair - september

2024 .tiff Emerging Belgian Photography with FOMU (Museum of Photography) Anvers Belgium - june}

^{Exhibition view Os Encantados, .TIFF 2024 Emerging Belgian Photography, FOMU Antwerp (BE) 2024}

^{Exhibition view Os Encantados, .TIFF 2024 Emerging Belgian Photography, FOMU Antwerp (BE) 2024}

^{Exhibition view Os Encantados video installation, .TIFF 2024 Emerging Belgian Photography, FOMU Antwerp (BE) 2024}

^{Exhibition view Os Encantados, .TIFF 2024 Emerging Belgian Photography, FOMU Antwerp (BE) 2024}

^{Exhibition view Os Encantados, video installation, .TIFF 2024 Emerging Belgian Photography, FOMU Antwerp (BE) 2024}
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