Dan Oracle : Private View at Cubitt Gallery

Dan Oracle is the series of installations created by artist / curator Ana Beatriz Almeida that reclaim the African origins of Tarot cultures with a triptyque oracle, Dan Oracle, at its heart. Inspired by the Vodoun journey of the curator, the installations explore the spirituality of the past, the present and the future.

Join us in Culbitt gallery on the 10th of October 6pm - 8pm

About Ana Beatriz Almeida

Ana Beatriz Almeida is a visual artist and art historian. Her work focuses on African manifestations and the African diaspora. Born in Niterói (RJ), in 1987, she holds a Master’s degree in History and Aesthetics of Art from the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo (USP), and is also the curator and co-founder of the art platform 01.01.

She was nominated for the Pipa Award 2021, is a curatorial consultant at MAC-Niterói and was a guest curator at Glasgow International 2020/2021. Almeida did a curatorial residency in Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria, through which she was able to reconnect with the part of his family that returned to Benin during a period of slavery. As an artist, she developed rites in honor of those who failed to survive the Atlantic journey of the slave trade. Her N’Gomku technique was developed during five years of research by UNESCO on the traditions of the Afro-Brazilian communities of Baba Egum and Irmandade da Boa Morte.

She presented performances at Centro Cultural São Paulo, Itaú Cultural, SESC Ipiranga and Casa de Cultura da Brasilândia, in São Paulo; and at the Bienal do Recôncavo, Bahia. Taught a summer course on her performance technique at Goldsmiths University,
in London, England, and participated in the Can Serrat Residency, in Barcelona, ​​Spain. Almeida’s work is part of the permanent collection of the Instituto Inhotim, in Brumadinho.

The work of Ana Beatriz Almeida reminds us that there, beyond life and death, it is not a passage, the limit between one moment and another, but infinity itself. Infinity, I mean the all-nothing, the where-when all existences become nothing more than versions of (im)possible stories.