Forced Approach, 2018, oil and acrylic on canvas, 194x290cm.
In Brazil, freedom of belief was ensured by the 1890 Constitution. The decree made secularism official in Brazil when revoking the Imperial Constitution, which stated that the Catholic religion was the official one. Even after such change, the coexistence among groups of different beliefs continued to be characterized by colonial behaviors that opposed the principles of freedom and tolerance established by the new law. Such historical conflict has escalated in the past years, to the extent that in 2017, in the City Hall of Rio de Janeiro, political representatives of conservative Christian groups tried to come up with legal forms of prohibiting African religious manifestations in public places.
The images of Christian saints and elements of Candomblé cults, which make up this painting, symbolically bring the rites and values of two religious groups whose forced approximation during the colonization process originated a new society which, although interracial, is structured by the culture of segregation.
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