Aline Motta’s “Brazil and Africa, a shared history” on display at Gorée Island

Brazilian artist Aline Motta’s trilogy, “If the Sea Had Balconies, Bridges Over the Abyss, and Other Foundations,” is currently on display at the landing stage of Gorée Island. The exhibition, titled “Brazil and Africa, a Shared History,” delves into the colonial past shared by Afro-descendants like the artist herself.

The visual narratives explore Motta’s roots, featuring works such as “Natural Daughter,” which combines historical and contemporary images taken at the same plantation 200 years apart.

This piece depicts Claudia Mamédé, an Afro-descendant living on the plantation today, who symbolically takes the place of both the master’s daughter and the slave, holding a cage…