EUSTÁQUIO NEVES. Born in Juatuba, Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 1955 Lives and works in Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil

EUSTÁQUIO NEVES

Born in Juatuba, Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 1955

Lives and works in Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Eustáquio Neves is a genuine photography autodidact. He studied chemistry and music but finally devoted himself to the activity that has gained him celebrity and recognition. He has worked independently for several publications since 1984 and his work has been carried out in the field of ethnic studies within the Afrobrasilian community. He lives in the areas that served as refuge to fugitive slaves–the quilombos.

Since 1989 he has researched and developed alternative and multidisciplinary techniques, manipulating negatives and prints. He has spent the last five years researching electronic media, including sequence and movement. His work has been widely published in various exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, and has garnered awards and ac-claim from the public and critics. In 1999 he was awarded first prize in the J. P. Morgan Photography Award, in São Paulo, Brazil, and that same year he enjoyed a Residency at Gasworks Studios and Triangle Arts Trust in London, UK

CRISPÍN O ENCOMENDADOR DE ALMAS

‘The diptychs and photographs in this series are based on the world inhabited by the character Crispin:

his everyday life, the religious manifestations and the means of survival that prevail in his village. In order to create a picture of this world I have used symbolic elements, which are as important as the portraits. One such example is a wooden tool—the gamela—traditionally used to collect corn during the harvest, which I have used to evoke the plantations on which his community has always worked. Gamela wood is also used to make the sword that is carried in religious manifestations of Nossa Senhora do Rosário as a symbol of resistance.

Crispin himself carries this sword when he walks at the head of the procession, scraping the floor with it as if opening the path for the religious cortège. Likewise, I use gamela wood to create the frames for my Crispin portraits. The photograph of the young girl Angela, who is related to Crispin, includes a container or platter—the bateia—normally used in diamond mining, the main regional source of income. The bateia in the photograph holds a flower species known as “everlasting flower”, which can only be found locally. As diamonds become increasingly scarce, the cultivation of these flowers is becoming a financial alternative for some families.’ Eustáquio Neves.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2008

Mozambique Triangle Workshop, Maputo, Mozambique Project Madrid Mirada, Madrid, Spain

2007

C International Photo Magazine, Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, USA

16º Festival International de Arte Eletrônica, VideoBrasil SESC, São Paulo, Brazil

Paraty em Foco, Galeria Zoom, Parati, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Encuentro entre dos mares, São Paulo-Valencia Biennial, Fundación de la Comunidad Valenciana, Biennial of the

Arts, Spain 2006

Outros Navios, FNAC Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil Outros Navios, FNAC Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Outros Navios, FNAC Curitiba, Paranã, Brazil

2005

Outros Navios, FNAC, São Paulo, Brazil

I Mostra Pan Africana de Arte Contemporânea (video installation), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Mapas Abiertos, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland

2004

Objetização do Corpo, Galeria Maria, Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Photo festa 2004: Maputo, II Encontro Internacional de Fotografia, Maputo, Mozambique

Mostra Prêmio Porto Seguro de Fotografia, São Paulo, Brazil 2003

5° Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine, Bamako, Mali 2002

Traslado do Corpo, Centro Cultural da UFMG, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Memórias, Centre Régional de la Photographie Nord - Pas-de-Calais, France

2001

Galeria Espaço Imagem & Forma, NAFOTO, São Paulo, Brazil 2000

Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA 1999

Museu do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil 1998

Fotofest, Seventh International Month of Photography, Houston, Texas, USA

Autograph, Observatório, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

1997

Lo Individuo y su Memoria, VI Bienal de La Habana, Cuba

1996

Dia Nacional da Consciência Negra, Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, Brazil 1995

Fotofagia, Galeria de Arte da Universidade Federal de Niterói, Brazil Fotofagia, Galeria de Fotografia da Funarte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Black Maria (photographic installation), Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

1994

O Construtor, Itaú Galeria, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil

1992

1991

Galeria de Arte do ICBEU, Minas Gerais, Brazil

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2013

Afro Brasil: Fotografia Brasileira, IFA Galerie Stuttgart, Germany

2012

Mythologies: Brazilian Contemporary Photography, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Dragão do Mar, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

2011

C Photo Virus, Langhans Galerie Praha, Prague, Czech Republic

2010

Exhibition Festival Mundial das Artes e Cultura Negra, Dakar, Senegal 2008

Identidades contrapostas, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil

2007

Cidadania... Brasileiros, Centro Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil

2006

C International Photo Magazine, FNAC L´Llla, Barcelona, Spain

C International Photo Magazine, Moscow House of Photography, The Sixth International Photography Month in

Moscow, Russia 2005

C International Photo Magazine, Ivorypress, London, UK

2004

Centro de la Imagen, Ciudad de México; Museo de Arte Zapopan Guadalajara, México

Mapas Abiertos, Fotografía Latinoamericana 1991-2002, (simultaneous exhibitions) Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona;

Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain 2002

Mundos Creados, Noorderlicht Fotomanifestatie Friesland, The Netherlands

2000

Latin American Photographs, New Viewpoints: The University of Texas at San Antonio,

presented by Visual Arts Gallery, Texas, USA 1997

II Biennial de Tokyo, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan 1995

1994

University of Toronto, Canada 1993

Fotografia Brasileira Contemporânea, Photo Meeting, NAFOTO, São Paulo, Brazil

1991

Centro Cultural da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

AWARDS

2009

Filme em Minas award for the experimental video Dead Horse, Secretaria Estadual de Cultura, Brazil 2007

Prêmio Videobrasil WBK Vrije Academie, The Netherlands 2006

Prêmio Orilaxé, Fundação Afro Reggae, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2005

C Action grant, Ivorypress, London, UK 2004

Prêmio Especial porto Seguro de fotografia, São Paulo, Brazil 1999

Grande Prêmio J. P. Morgan de Fotografia, São Paulo, Brazil

Residency scholarship in Gasworks Studios and Triangle Arts Trust with the support of Autograph (Black Photographers Association), London, UK

1997

Prêmio Nacional de Fotografia, Ministerio de Cultura y Funarte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1994

VII Prêmio Funarte Marc Ferrez de Fotografia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Ivorypress Collection, London, UK

Collection Porto Seguro de Fotografia, São Paulo, Brazil Collection of the Instituto Cultural Santos, São Paulo, Brazil Collection of the World Bank, Washington D.C., USA Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas, USA

Pirelli Masp Photography Collection, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba

Funarte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

J. P. Morgan Collection, Brazil

MAM, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil Museu Afro-brasil, São Paulo, Brazil

Joaquim Paiva Collection, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Centre Regional de la Photographie, Nord Pas-de-Calais, France

Instituto Cultural Itaú, Banco de dados digital, sector Fotografia no Brasil

PUBLICATIONS

2006

C International Photo Magazine Number 1, Ivorypress, London, UK

2005

Fotoportátil, CosacNaify, São Paulo, Brazil

1998

Museu do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil 1997

Arte e Religiosidade no Brasil, Pincoteca, São Paulo, Brazil

1996