mayara ferrão

“Album of deforgetfulness”,  2024

ALBUM OF DEFORGETFULNESS offers a visual-poetic gesture of reparation for the absence of black and indigenous women in Brazil’s colonial historical archives. By creating a fictional, intimate and celebratory collection, the project reimagines erased memories of affection between black and indigenous women, stories excluded from the official narrative. Using analogue photography, artificial intelligence and image manipulation, artist Mayara Ferrão evokes their silenced presence by challenging the boundaries between fiction, memory and history. At its core, the act of ‘unarchiving’ becomes a political and creative force - one that opens pathways to imagine a future rooted in the strength of invisible, yet enduring ties.