A part of the Primal Matter Project.

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rising dawn 
2024
4.49'

A performance film

By Isabella Ogeda
Direction Dudu Mafra and Mateus Lana


Done in 2024, Hunger brings a tender depiction of endocanibbalism. Building upon the legacy of 80s Brazilian Modernists and the Cannibale Manifesto of Oswald de Andrade, the artist eats a mixture of the ashes of the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro with banana mash.

 

The anthropophagic manifest of Oswald de Andrade argues that Brazil’s greatest strength is its tendency to ‘cannibalize’ the various cultures that have intermingled there. In that sense, the artist consumes the museum as a rite of passage. 

 

The consumption of the body is the final step in a series of complex ceremonies and functions as a symbolic reintegration of a deceased entity. Through this act, a sacrifice of the individuality of the body by binding it to the things that were left in the fire. 

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As Anna Maria Maiolino says, she "allowed (herself) to be eaten as a 'sacred enemy', to be digested and expelled (...) as a cannibal version of myself". And finally, through the act, Isabella brings the matter to them in the opposite direction.