BLACK
Cite; Sight– Site
Afro-Futures + Ubuntu Infrastructures
September 1 – September 9 2025
BLACK: Cite; Sight– Site
Philosophical Reader (PDF)
Exhibition Guide (PDF)
Film Screening Guide (PDF)
Program
📍 Quarto Andar, Sala 26, Galeria Presidente (Galeria do Reggae)
Rua 24 de Maio, 116 – República, São Paulo
September 1 (Monday) / 1º de setembro (segunda-feira)
6:00 pm / 18h — Happy Hour & Celebration (Open to the Public) / Happy Hour & Celebração (Aberto ao Público)
📍 Jerky’s: Cozinha Caribenha, R. Bento Freitas, 158 – República, São Paulo
September 2 (Tuesday) / 2 de setembro (terça-feira)
3:00–4:30 pm / 15h–16h30 — Fellows’ Open Studio at Galeria / Estúdios Abertos dos Fellows na Galeria
5:00–6:00 pm / 17h–18h — Film Screenings at Theatre / Exibição de Filmes no Teatro
6:00–8:00 pm / 18h–20h — Roundtable & Talkback / Mesa-redonda & Conversa
Com Oba Adekunle Aderonmu, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Allan Da Rosa e Glaucea Helena de Britto
Moderação: Mariama Bah
📍 Teatro SESC 24 de Maio, Rua 24 de Maio, 109 – República, São Paulo
September 3 (Wednesday) / 3 de setembro (quarta-feira)
Public with RSVP email / Público com RSVP pelo e-mail info@blacksites.world
Donations Welcome!
11:30–1:00 pm / 11h30–13h00 — Gallery tour and IFÁ symbolism with Oba Adekunle Aderonmu at IFÁ Imports / Visita guiada e simbolismo do IFÁ com Oba Adekunle Aderonmu no IFÁ Imports
📍 Centro Cultural Africano, Rua Gaspar Ricardo Júnior, 112 – Barra Funda, São Paulo
September 3–4 (Wednesday–Thursday) / 3–4 de setembro (quarta–quinta)
4:00–6:00 pm / 16h–18h — Fellows’ Open Studio Days at Galeria / Estúdios Abertos dos Fellows na Galeria
September 5 (Friday) / 5 de setembro (sexta-feira)
3:00–6:00 pm / 15h–18h — Opening Event & Performances / Evento de Abertura & Performances
September 6 (Saturday) / 6 de setembro (sábado)
10:00 am / 10h — Concentration at Largo do Café / Concentração no Largo do Café
10:30 am–12:00 pm / 10h30–12h — História da Disputa: Disputa da História Performance Activation, starting at Largo do Café and concluding with conversation at Galeria / Ativação-Performance História da Disputa: Disputa da História, iniciando no Largo do Café e finalizando com conversa na Galeria
📍 Largo do Café, Centro Histórico de São Paulo
September 7 (Sunday) / 7 de setembro (domingo)
2:00–4:00 pm / 14h–16h — Visit to the Studio of Josafá Neves / Visita ao Ateliê de Josafá Neves
📍 Negozafa Ateliê, Rua Barra Funda, 532 – Barra Funda, São Paulo
September 8–9 (Monday–Tuesday) / 8–9 de setembro (segunda–terça)
1:00–6:00 pm / 13h–18h — Open Gallery Hours for Visitors / Horário Aberto da Galeria para Visitantes
Reclaiming Space, Memory, and Futures
Black: Cite; Sight– Site is a layered, transnational exhibition and conference launching Fall 2025 in São Paulo, Brazil before journeying to Dar es Salaam, Chicago, London, and New York in 2026, linking these cities as vital nodes in global Afro-diasporic cultural production. The project convenes artists, theorists, and community leaders to explore Black life as a generative infrastructure of autonomy, memory, relation, and sustainability.
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Collective Memory-Making
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Cultural Transformation
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Immersive Art 〰️ Collective Memory-Making 〰️ Cultural Transformation 〰️
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These events map São Paulo as an Afro-diasporic palimpsest, uncovering layers of history and migration to reimagine the city as an archive of Black autonomy and creativity.
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Focused on Black placemaking, these events explore how Afro-diasporic communities transform urban spaces into sites of belonging and resistance, blending memory, movement, and creativity.
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Anchored by an exhibit in dialogue with the Biennale, these events immerse visitors in São Paulo’s dynamic Afro-diasporic spaces, fostering transformative engagements with the city and its people.
A Vision Rooted in Collective Power
At the heart of Black: Cite; Sight– Site is a commitment to honoring the continuity and creativity of Afro-diasporic life. Grounded in the principles of Ubuntu’s relationality, quilombismo’s legacy of autonomy, and AbdulMaliq Simone’s notion of “people as infrastructure,” the project activates São Paulo as a vibrant site of worlding from below.
Through deep collaboration with Afro-diasporic communities, we engage local practices of reclamation and transformation as integral to a global dialogue on art, memory, and collective becoming. By weaving together local histories with transnational currents of Black cultural production, Black: Cite; Sight– Site cultivates a shared vision of place—where ancestral memory and creative innovation shape new possibilities for the world we make together.