November 2018

This exhibition was based on the perception that the architecture and urbanism course, when citing architectural projects and references, had the majority of male and white architects, the consequence of this hierarchy legitimized the Eurocentric (white and patriarchal) epistemological explanation as superior, making other experiences unfeasible of knowledge. “Where are black women in architecture and urbanism?” We black women are not represented in the academic field, neither in the student body, nor in the teaching staff, much less in the theoretical and practical field. From this epistemicide, this exhibition was planned, questioning the presence of black women in architecture and urbanism, and soon after, showing that we do exist, and that we have been in architecture for years and we are PRESENT! Taking as a basis the invisibility of black women as a political category and in order to denounce this historical erasure, the exhibition features photographs of 16 national and international black female architects and urban planners, proposing the experience of discovery with an X-shaped display, where each visitor will travel around its axis generating knowledge.

“I’m not leaving I’ll stay here And resist the fire.”

Sojourner Truth

Curatorial Team The exhibition is embodied in collective curation, with the article on the important representation of Invisible Architects in archdaily (11 April, 2018 by Raquel Freire) and with the contribution of architecture students from FAU – UFJF.

Curatorship: collective

Expographic Project: Gisele de Paula