The rewriting of black narrative in the borders of Week of 22.

Emicida: Amarelo – é tudo pra ontem

Abstract

This article aims at analyzing the audiovisual narrative “Emicida: Amarelo – é tudo pra ontem” (2020) as part of a critical material about the Modern Art Week from the perspective of a black individual in contemporary society. In this documentary, recorded at the Teatro Municipal de São Paulo, Emicida rewrites black history in Brazil, using fragmented images of the present and the past, expanding the ways of understanding the Week of 22. Thus, this article aims at  understanding aspects of contemporary black narrativity from the borders of the Modern Art Week, by resorting to some reflections made by    Achille Mbembe (2018) about the power of black creativity in a  grim scenario, by Maria Angélica Melendi (2017) about artistic strategies in times of barbarism, and  by Walter Benjamin (2012), Jeanne Marie Gagnebin (2018) and the Márcio Seligmann-Silva (2008) about the rewriting of history and the narration of traumatic experiences.