Brunn Morais

Brunn Morais (Brazil, born 1989) confronts the dominant representation of Roma identity through inverted sentences and quotations from decolonial theory, both in his anthropological research and in his interactive art installations made of mirrors. His exhibited multi-part installation ‘Reflections’, which is one of the latest acquisitions of Kai Dikha’s collection, combines contemporary art and academic concepts in a series of installations that invite us to reflect on subalternity, marginalisation, intersectionality and standpoint theory. ‘Reflections’ is based on the reading of “Can the Subaltern speak?” by Indian author, scholar, literary theorist and feminist critic Gayatri Spivak (1985), which proposes a very important reading in the context of postcolonial studies. Against the universalism of hegemonic Western culture, Morais develops an expressive power based on a pluriversalism of Roma identity.