Reclaiming ancestral techniques and materials to forge new spaces of coexistence. This is the guiding principle born from a desire to "create openings for freedom, joy, love, and empowering affects, which propose to rethink ways of inhabiting in harmony with the Earth and ancestry." It is a concept materialized—and still under construction—at Terra Afefé: a micro-city in Ibicoara, in Bahia's Chapada Diamantina region, created by artist Rose Afefé.
Terra Afefé began in 2018 and has been in constant development ever since. Using earth as a raw material to construct a space that orchestrates different layers of memory, the present, and community has been the focus of the work developed by Rose Afefé, originally from Varzedo, Bahia. Afefé emerged from a desire to dismantle the dualisms imposed by coloniality, which tend to separate nature from culture, exterior from interior, and art from life. Alongside the community and navigating local knowledge, the project stands out as a movement of coexistence, helping to imagine and realize different ways of collective living. To learn more about this work and how it is being built, we spoke with the artist.
