AYRSON HERACLITUS

HEALING TECHNOLOGIES AND AFFECTIONS

In his exhibition Ayrson Heráclito reveals the crossing of Afro diasporic healing technologies, heritages of a cultural matrix, providing us with a decolonial path. The demythification of the anthropocene and the integration of ecologies of knowledge of the "yorubaiana" ancestry in his work allows him to navigate between technologies of cleansing, purification, bodily connections, and orality. It is through ancestral knowledge that the diasporic body resists colonial violence and ethnocide. The "yorubaian" universe is a transatlantic voyage that entails sophisticated tools (re)created in the Afro-Brazilian diaspora, which endure to this day as a cure for body, spirit, mind, and society.