Understanding art as an affective technology for reading, assimilating, and experiencing the world, Luara Macari’s work constitutes a process that aims to articulate different materials (oil paint, acrylics, India ink, photos, video, words) to construct subjective and sensitive reasoning about Black identity, ancestrality, spirituality, performativity, and territoriality that cross the artist’s body and experience. As an architecture student, writer, and researcher, Luara’s work traces a middle way between different languages and forms of expression. Between audiovisual, poetry, dramaturgy, photography, painting, and engraving, the artist uses black and white as aesthetic parties to mediate the multidisciplinary and multifaceted layers that characterize her production. Since 2020, Luara Macari has been dedicated to an immersive research project titled “EWÊ,” where the artist seeks to build a subjective vocabulary regarding the axé immanent in the vegetal world.
