• Yhuri Cruz, 'Revenguê', theatrical performance at Museu de Arte do Rio, 2023. Photo Tayná Uraz

    Yhuri Cruz, 'Revenguê', theatrical performance at Museu de Arte do Rio, 2023. Photo Tayná Uraz

  • Yhuri Cruz, Negrotiation - My tongue lies in your mouth and I want it back, at Centro Cultural São Paulo, 2023. Photo Ding Musa

    Yhuri Cruz, Negrotiation - My tongue lies in your mouth and I want it back, at Centro Cultural São Paulo, 2023. Photo Ding Musa

  • Yhuri Cruz, Pretofagia, at Centro Municipal de Arte Helio Oiticica, 2019

    Yhuri Cruz, Pretofagia, at Centro Municipal de Arte Helio Oiticica, 2019

  • Yhuri Cruz, The Death of the Yurugu - a lecture-scene, public performance, 2023. Photo Pablo Figueiredo

    Yhuri Cruz, The Death of the Yurugu - a lecture-scene, public performance, 2023. Photo Pablo Figueiredo

  • Yhuri Cruz, The horse is the rising - Monument to Osala and to the Workers, public performance, 2019. Photo Jessica Senra

Yhuri Cruz (Brazil) is a visual artist, writer and playwright whose practice intertwines literature and action through collective, performative and installation-based propositions – a series of works the artist names Cenas Pretofágicas. Yhuri is often moved by issues such as decolonial/colonial power dynamics, historical fictions, archive fabulations, institutional criticism, and black emancipatory fantasy.

During his residency at Delfina Foundation, as part of Performance as Process, Yhuri intends to keep expanding his research on performance and historical fiction. This time, focusing on themes such as time traveling and broken/stolen/lost treasures from the black Brazilian diaspora around the western settlers’ world.

Yhuri Cruz has a degree in Political Science (UNIRIO) and a postgraduate degree in Cultural Journalism (UERJ). His most recent exhibitions and performances include: Museu de Arte do Rio, Brazil (2023); One gee in fog, Switzerland (2023); Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (2022); Inhotim Institute, Brazil (2022); Maus Hábitos, Portugal (2019); 10th International Biennial of Bolívia, Bolivia (2018).

WITH SUPPORT FROM

Instituto Inclusartiz

THEMATIC PROGRAMME

Performance as Process:
Season 5

Supported by M Art Foundation

RESIDENCY SEASON

Autumn 2023

ARTIST’S WEBSITE

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