Iracema (de Questembert)
by Maria Thereza Alves
Director: Maria Thereza Alves
Producer: Alves-Durham GbR/Maumaus Artists-in-Residence Programme/Lumiar Cité
Language: French/Krenak
Subtitles: Portuguese
Year: 2009
Runtime: 27 min
Colour
Funded by: Lyon Biennale/Lumiar Cité, Direcção-Geral das Artes
In the fictional docudrama Iracema (de Questembert), specially made for the Lyon Biennale, Maria Thereza Alves recounts the story of Iracema, a young indigenous woman from Corubime, an isolated Brazilian village. Iracema makes the long journey from her village to São Paulo and then to France, where she learns that she has just inherited her father’s estate.
Iracema is now the owner of a vast property which the local authorities would like to buy from her rather than see it in the hands of a “savage”. Undaunted, Iracema fights to keep her property, where she later founds the Questembert Institute for Art and Science. She makes speeches at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre questioning the legality of French statehood and sets about meeting artists and thinkers such as Carla Accardi, Fabrice Hybert, Constantine Brancusi and Olivier Messiaen.
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Upcoming:
Maumaus
Lecture | 24.06.2025 | 19h
The lecture will be in English. Entry is free and limited to the number of seats available.
Upcoming:
Howard Singerman
Local Art Worlds (or Imaginary Geographies with Real Effects)
Goethe-Institut, Auditorium
Seminar | 24, 25, 26.06. 11h – 13h, 14h – 16h
Registration is free but limited to the number of seats available. Please send an email with a short CV to admin@maumaus.org by 15.06.2025. Confirmation of registration will be sent by email. The seminar will be in English.
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Current:
In collaboration with Lumiar Cité:
Coumba Samba
deutschland
Kunstverein in Hamburg
24.05 – 10.08.2025
23.05 | 19h Opening of the exhibition
Maumaus/Lumiar Cité is funded by República Portuguesa – Cultura/Direção-Geral das Artes. With the support of Câmara Municipal de Lisboa and Junta de Freguesia do Lumiar.