BURUBURU - Ayrson Heráclito.
Buruburu means popcorn in the African‐Brazilian dialect. In the religious symbology of Candomblé, popcorn is the flower of Obaluaê, the Orisha of disease and cure. The work alludes to a popcorn bath as a source of energy that vigorously cleanses the body and soul. Heráclito’s work analyses ritual, symbolic, and ethnographic issues at the same time as it discusses the relationship between cultural constructions and the spontaneous course of phenomena.
Ayrson Heráclito is an artist, curator, and professor. Master in Visual Arts at the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Salvador; and is PhD. candidate since 2011 in Comunication and Semiotics at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), Brazil. He works with installation, performance, photography, and video, dealing with elements of African-Brazilian culture. He has exhibited at collective shows such as Afro-Brazilian Contemporary Art, Europalia.Brasil, Brussels, Belge (2012); The Luanda Triennial, Angola (2010); and MIP 2, International Performance Manifestation, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2009). He lives and works in Salvador, Brazil
