Jacy Bastos

I research my ancestors' slavery links with the struggle for historical reparation for black and indigenous peoples, through iconography that recalls the horrors that white people practiced against those people. 

As I healed internally from the racism in which I was raised, I linked my poetic research in an effort for reparations based on memories and against forgetting. The imbalances in global realities, the intellectual legacies of the systems of myths, power and time of white people, colonial domination and structural racism need studies to tackle them, this is how the project was born: “On Slavers, Enslaved and Genocidal Women”. The work lays bare the treatment that white people gave and still dedicate to black and indigenous peoples in the past and present.

Jacy Bastos (1970, Alto Rio Novo-ES, Brazil) is an artist who works with anti-racist narratives and reparations for black and indigenous peoples through paintings. He researches the slave-owning past of his ancestors, which generated a classist, racist, prejudiced, misogynistic and exclusionary society, with implications for today's world. The collaborations come through the works of Maria Elizabeth Ribeiro Carneiro, (Thesis: A Cartography of Wet Nurses in the Carioca Society, 1850-1888) and Maria do Carmo de Oliveira Russo, (Thesis: A Escravidão in São Mateus- ES).

Jacy Bastos recently exhibited with Coletivo 21 at WIKIARTE – 2021 and EIXO – 2021