Activation – Sertão Negro – Ceramics and the connection between earth, hands, and memory with Anahy Jorge and Anuã Aucê

On December 12, there will be a workshop called Ceramics and the connection between earth, hands, and memory, as part of a series of activities organized by Sertão Negro at the 36th Bienal de São Paulo. The activity will take place from 3 pm to 6 pm at the Sertão Negro’s work, on the first floor.

Located in the Goiás savanna and structured on the principles of quilombo and terreiro, Sertão Negro has its foundations in ancestry, agroecology, vernacular architecture, and the emotional and pedagogical exchanges that are built between artists, masters, apprentices, and the surrounding community. The space hosts ongoing activities such as classes in ceramics, engraving, and agroecology, capoeira angola, and artistic residencies that promote encounters between different languages and bodies.

For the 36th Bienal de São Paulo a series of activations is proposed throughout the duration of the exhibition. Each month, two moments will be dedicated to sharing practices and processes that reflect life in the Sertão: whether through body language, sound, conversation, or collective action. These are 10 sensory, educational, and performative activations that invite the public to experience, even if only for a moment, the poetic surroundings of the Complexo Sertão Negro.

This workshop addresses the memory of the earth through clay, its malleability in the hands, and its reactivation. Participants will be encouraged to have an initial contact with the clay by kneading it with their hands for 20 minutes. During this period, with the addition of water, they will approach family and individual memory through the plastic, malleable, and ancestral universe of the earth. Soon after, they will be led to model containers where traces of family memory and their connections to the earth will be imprinted and drawn. At the end of the clay experience, the containers will be gathered into a large monument to memory with the contribution of each participant’s impressions.

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Activation – Sertão Negro –Ceramics and the connection between earth, hands, and memory with Anahy Jorge and Anuã Aucê
36th Bienal de São Paulo – Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice
December 12, 2025
Friday, 3 pm
Ground Floor
Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion
Ibirapuera Park, gate 3
Av. Pedro Álvares Cabral, s/n
São Paulo, SP
free admission