Anita Ekman

Clark Fellow

07/10/2023–08/20/2023

Anita Ekman is a Brazilian visual and performance artist and researcher of pre-colonial art and rainforest history. Her collaborative performances at archaeological sites and in museum collections analyze the Atlantic World and the role of women in the Amazon and Atlantic Rainforests. She has given lectures at universities such as Indiana, Tufts, and Harvard, while her artworks have been published on museum websites such as MoMA, Harvard's Peabody Museum, and in Od Review and Select. She is co-curator with Sandra Benites, also a Clark Fellow for summer 2023, of the exhibition Ka'a Body: Cosmovision of the Rainforest at Paradise Row in London and Radicantes in Paris. At the Clark, Ekman and Benites intend to jointly produce a publication based on the concepts of body-territory and Indigenous territoriality. This new work will examine how women in contemporary Indigenous and Brazilian art are transforming the global imagination of forests and their human and non-human inhabitants.