Performance – Salesman Of Revolt / Le ventre de l’Atlantique – Hamedine Kane

On September 8, the performance Salesman Of Revolt / Le ventre de l’Atlantique [The Belly of the Atlantic] by Hamedine Kane, in collaboration with Célia Reis, Jair Guilherme Filho, Cleide Aparecida Vitorino, Rodney Saint-Éloi, and Saliou Seck, will take place. The event will happen from 4pm to 5pm at the artist’s work, in the 2nd floor.

Hamedine Kane (Nouakchott, 1983. Lives in Brussels, Paris, and Dakar) is a visual artist and filmmaker. Trained in librarianship and book studies, his practice spans video, photography, performance, and installation, focusing on migration, borders, and postcolonial knowledge. He directed La Maison Bleue (2020), a film selected by festivals such as IDFA (Amsterdam), Cinéma du Réel (Paris), and RIDM (Montréal).

This participation is supported by Institut français within its IF Incontournable program, Villa Médicis x Fondation Louis Roederer and Instituto Sacatar

Célia Reis is a poet and activist in the Black movement. She works within São Paulo’s cultural scenes, focusing on Black, feminist, and peripheral literature. She is the author of Significância and has been published in several anthologies, including Sarau da Brasa, Sarau Elo da Corrente, Sarau dos Mesquiteiros, Louva Deusas, Ilú Obá de Min, Me Parió Revolução, and Cadernos Negros 45. She is a percussionist/dancer in the Afro-Brazilian collective Bloco Afro Ilú Obá de Min. Educator and PhD in Social History from PUC/SP, she is also a researcher and the organizer of the book Epistemologias em Percursos Decoloniais.

Jair Guilherme Filho is a visual artist, musician, poet, and art teacher. He was born in São Paulo in 1963. He holds a Master’s degree in Aesthetics and Art History from USP and a degree in Visual Arts from UNICAMP. He is part of the Casa das Áfricas Amanar collective and the MPB group Trio Porão. He also directs Balaio Ateliê de Artes Visuais.

Cleide Aparecida Vitorino holds a PhD in Law with a focus on the Social Function of Law, Constitutional Law, and Human Rights. She is a researcher and consultant in Human Rights with an emphasis on migration rights, socio-intercultural mediation, and the third sector. She is also a specialist in Dance and body awareness. Member of Casa Áfricas Amanar and Humanitas360, she is a lecturer, writer, educator, and mentor.

Rodney Saint-Éloi (1963) is a poet, writer, essayist, and editor from Haiti. He studied French-language literature at Laval University. His dissertation, Émergence de la poétique créole en Haïti, focused on the history of the Creole language. In Haiti, he founded the publishing house Mémoire, the magazine Culture, and the art and literature journal Boutures. Saint-Éloi is the author of around ten books of poetry and has translated about ten works from French into Creole. He has edited several anthologies and, in 2003, founded Mémoire d’encrier in Montreal, which has become a major reference for diverse literature. Through this work, he has brought to light writers of varied backgrounds (Indigenous, Québécois, Haitian, Senegalese, Caribbean, among others), guided by an approach that sees “otherness as a source of future and solidarity.”

Saliou Seck is a Senegalese percussionist and griot, descended from a traditional family of master musicians from West Africa. With over 20 years of professional experience, he has accompanied tours of major musicians in Senegal and performed with renowned ballets and companies such as École des Sables and Cie Walou Dekoundo. Since 2022, he has been working in Brazil, teaching and promoting traditional rhythms, training new percussionists, and building cultural bridges between Africa and Brazil.

Denise Dias Barros and Mahfouz Ag Adnane, researchers from the thematic group Link’ArtÁfricas-FAPESP, also contributed to the production of the performance.

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Performance – Salesman Of Revolt / Le ventre de l’Atlantique – Hamedine Kane
36th Bienal de São Paulo – Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice
September 8, 2025
Monday, 4 pm
2nd Pavement
Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion
Ibirapuera Park, gate 3
Av. Pedro Álvares Cabral, s/n
São Paulo, SP
free admission