PROJECT

Redes da Maré and Azulejaria have been working together since 2006, when the organization invited the architect and artist Laura Taves to give workshops on art with tiles..

It has been 15 years of this partnership through a program of actions that combine collective processes of art, education and training with local residents, carrying out a set of activities that give rise to urban interventions in the favela's public space, with the purpose of building and strengthen an artistic experience for local people.

The work is an exercise in art and education in constant transformation, seeking to strengthen the individual assets of its participants through collective artistic construction. Every year, the partnerships expand within Redes da Maré's work axes and in projects such as the Lima Barreto Library, NUMIM, the House of Women of Maré, the Normal Space, Maré Cultural Canvas, among others.

Inauguration of the project 'Correspondências Cariocas - O Rio em 450 azulejos', with children and young people who participated, presenting a varied and striking mosaic about their city and the daily life they experience in Maré.

Azulejaria Workshops - Originally designed as art and tile workshops for children and teenagers, the work of Ateliê Azulejaria has been refined, improving the methodology, expanding the reach of the public and amplifying its activities in the communities. Throughout this process, the investment and installation of the ceramic oven in the art room, located in the central building of Redes da Maré, was decisive, consolidating the project's presence in Maré and providing a space for further experimentation.

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Street signs in Maré - In 2012, with the production of street signs, we created a process of investigation and rescue of local memory with some of the oldest residents, for the exercise of citizenship and the right to the city. For 10 years, Maré Census mapped the entire Complexo da Maré, and thanks to the project, Street Signs was born. Defined as a neighborhood in 1994, Maré was redefined in terms of its visibility, recognition, cultural identity and that of the residents themselves, their belonging and valuation.

Photo: Workshop of azulejaria with relatives of victims of covid-19 in Maré.

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MAIN PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES

Building an identity

In 2016, with the women of Flavors of Maré project, we built the front of a new facility for Redes da Maré: the House of Women of Maré.

Artistic interventions

Between 2018 and 2019, the Open Air Maré project invited 5 artists from outside and inside the community to propose permanent urban interventions in the different favelas that make up Maré.

In addition to tiles

Azulejaria also presents Maré in seminars, exhibitions, classes and debates, exhibiting the work in national and international spaces dedicated to knowledge and the arts.

“Living is a collective action”

The most recent project, carried out in August 2021, was the installation of two panels in the new shed at Normal Space. The tile panels are a collective work of art made by those who frequent the crack use scene in Maré with the Azulejaria team in celebration of the 1st week of Mental Health - Rema Maré, in the favelas of Maré.

Play Maré

Project contemplated by the Programa de Fomento à Cultura Carioca through the Public Notice Foca 2021, of the Municipal Secretariat of Culture, inaugurated in November 2022. Based on a collective intervention of public art in tiles, the project made it possible to rescue a small square located between two communities, Praça da Paz, before "a landfill", which has been taken over by the local population. Over the course of 6 months, art workshops were held with 45 children and young people, in creation processes, the result of which is translated into 3 permanent tile panels - two in the Municipal Cultural Canvas Herbert Vianna next to the square, and one in the square itself -, as demarcation and affirmation of public space and the right to play. The conquest of the square by children as a leisure space for all of Maré.

Photo 01: Workshops with beneficiaries of Normal Space, in 2021. Photo 02: Production of ceramics in the 1st Week of Mental Health in Maré - Rema Maré, in 2021, with phrases from the poets who participated in the show "Becos" plus weavers of Redes.

BELOW, THE TEXT BY THE CURATOR AND ART CRITICISM DANIELA NAME, ABOUT THE ACTION WITH NORMAL SPACE IN 2021:

Andreza, Rafael, Antonio (photos), co-authors of the work that artist and educator Laura Taves has articulated for 15 years at Azulejaria with Redes da Maré and which has now reverberated in the reflection on mental health in the favela, together with Normal Space. It will soon be at the Memorial da Maré. .

With the tiles, Laura and the studio's attendees have coated the walls and frontages of Nova Holanda and other of the 16 distinct communities that make up Maré with a semantic web that subverts stereotypes about what a favela would be like. I pass by these small squares in white and blue, so strong in our colonial and sacred memory coming from Portugal, and I rediscover them in a fold with their Arab origins. In this culture, tiles sign a visual and poetic writing for social and intimate spaces. Tile as a poem for architecture. Tile as a resistant memory of verb and color, capable of reaching the future. Maktub.

It is very beautiful to see an artist who transforms her own reflection/creative drive into a community and collective web. And I thank Laura for taking this to a gigantic voltage, the size of Maré. There, she has been transforming the walls into a mosaic of memories and subjectivities of residents.

How important this is: affirming memory and subjectivity is attesting to humanity in collective spaces treated by segments of public power and our society only as a geographical problem - in the imagination of some, a crime ghetto. The blue network of words and affections articulated by Laura and her partners highlights Maré as the place of life, creation, love and desire - multiple existences. And it gives this vibrant heart a structure capable of surviving time - and stamping on the wall, generations ahead, the message of a plural and complex present.

This text is just my thank you.

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Photos 01 and 02: Inauguration of the Covid-19 Memorial at Rua Bittencourt Sampaio, Nova Holanda, to honor the Mareenses who lost their lives to the virus.

ADDRESS

R. Srg. Silva Nunes, 1012 - Nova Holanda, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, 21044-242 Telephone: 55 21 3105 5531

OPENING HOURS

Studio with workshops every Tuesday and Thursday, from 2 pm to 6 pm, at Redes da Maré's headquarters, in Nova Holanda. To participate, send a message via WhatsApp to set a day and time: 55 21 99924 6462 It is worth remembering that, throughout the pandemic, the meetings were held virtually.

CONTACT

Email: laurataves@redesdamare.org.br

WhatsApp from the Coordination: (21) 99435-6300

Whatsapp da Redes da Maré: (21) 99924-6462

Instagram: @atelieazulejaria

Web-site: Clique Aqui

TEAM

Art Directio: Laura Taves

Workshop Coordination:Márcia Queiroz

Art Co-director: João Rivera (Juca)

Workshop monitors:Arthur Vianna, Júlia Chagas e Sidney D'Arc

SUPPORTING PARTNERS

Itaú Cultural Rumos

People's Palace Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

2021

Installation of two panels in the new shed at Normal Space, a collective work of art made by regulars of the space, friends of Normal (Carlos Roberto Normal) in celebration of the 1st week of Mental Health - Rema Maré. | Realization of the “Breathing” project, contemplated by the Aldir Blanc Law, which brought together young local artists to debate the theme “the black body alive in the territory”, resulting in the production of a 25m² graffiti panel and the making of a monumental panel on Avenida Brasil, created and produced in partnership with the Encontro das Artes team, a local collective that develops projects with ex-prisoners. | Workshops with the reception of family and friends, resulting in the inauguration of a Memorial in honor of the victims of Covid-19, at Rua Bittencourt Sampaio, Nova Holanda. Fruit of the partnership with the Public Security and Access to Justice Axis and revealed on a tile panel measuring more than 20 square meters, which bears the names of 72 of the 380 people from Mare who lost their lives to the virus.

2020

“Maré Art and Music Nucleus”, a project carried out in partnership with Instituto d'O Passo, supported by the ISS Law, which took place in the midst of a pandemic and sought to adapt to offer art and music workshops to children and young people, in a virtual way. The children were encouraged to create stories, drawings and music based on their perceptions of the sounds and landscapes of Maré. l The project “Maré Open Air” was selected to be included in the publication of the 27th World Congress of Architecture. .

2019

Azulejaria's participation in the exhibition “Je suis Le monde Entier / I am the whole world”, held at the Regional Center for Contemporary Art in Montbéliard - Le Crac19, in France. From the meeting with 3 former students from the Azulejaria workshops in Maré, the theme of visibility served as a reflection and trigger for the dialogue between Maré and France, for the exhibition “(Con)Vivências”, with Ricardo Basbaum, Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica.

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2018

We approved the “Maré Open Air”, a project that was born out of a partnership between Azulejaria and the Nucleus of Memories and Identities of Maré - NUMIM, based on the desire to tell a little more about the history of the favelas of Maré and its inhabitants, reaffirming their forms to live and build identities. Carried out with the support of Rumos - Itaú Cultural, it presented permanent works of art on a guided tour through different parts of the territory. Throughout 2019 and 2020, five artists carried out creative processes with residents.

2017

Street Signs of Maré participates in the exhibition "How to say Design in Portuguese: Brazil Today", in Lisbon. A selection of one hundred Brazilian projects in the 21st century showing "a real Brazil in solving concrete problems". | Participation in the 11th São Paulo Architecture Biennale in the exhibition “Devires do Brasil: cartography of an imaginary”, with historical works in parallel with contemporary Brazilian proposals. | Creation of the frontage of the House of Women of Maré, completed in October 2017. Workshops were held with the team of women from Flavors of Maré, where the entrance panel of the house was created, which later gave rise to the design of the frontage.

2016

A Maré at the Venice Biennale: in April 2016, the Maré Street Signs project represented Brazil at the 15th Venice International Architecture Biennale. The project was selected for the exhibition “Together”, with the theme Reporting from the front, which valued works from around the world that contribute to the common good and improve people's lives. | Project “Correspondências Cariocas - O Rio em 450 azulejos” which brought together more than 1,000 tiles covering a house and illustrating a panorama of what the city of Rio de Janeiro was like at the time of the celebration of its 450 years. | Through the Public Notice of Development of the City Hall of Rio de Janeiro, the project “Correspondências” carried out tile workshops with 50 children and young people from Maré. The drawings were turned into postcards and sent to other children from all over the world, telling a little about our city. | Participation in the project Occupation of Maré Arts Center, with family workshops and actions on Saturdays. .

2015

Recognition of the streets in Maré: resulting from the work process of the Census Maré (beginning in 2010), with the 16 Residents' Associations, among other partners, and the carrying out of the pilot project of the Street Signs of Maré. In 2015 a working group was created by the Municipal Secretariat of Urbanism to officially recognize and register the streets of Maré. The team spent 7 months getting "birth certificates" from approximately 505 of the neighborhood's 815 streets. Some of our students had the opportunity to participate in the process, renaming the streets where they lived.

2014

“Azulejos Rinocerontes”: creation of a panel inspired by the theatrical work of Eugène Ionesco. In April 2014 Maré was occupied by the Armed Forces. In this mega operation that lasted more than 1 year, the streets became a territory of war, with tanks circling, armed soldiers, barbed wire and barricades. In the Azulejaria workshops, based on an exercise in reflection, an engraving of Durer's Rhinoceros was chosen as the group's mascot, leading us to the theater play “O Rinoceronte” at Cidade das Artes and addressing themes such as: culture, fascism, responsibility and morality.

2013

The Maré Street Signs become part of the collection of the Museum of Art in Rio (MAR). Displayed for the first time at the inauguration of the museum, in the exhibition “ImagináRIO”, aggregating works that pointed to a continuous reflection on the city of Rio de Janeiro.

2012

The “Street Signs of Maré / Maré of Streets and Histories” are the result of a work process that sought to make official the more than 700 streets in the neighborhood by public bodies. | Maré of Streets and Histories was created as a pilot project with the aim of mobilizing and including residents and, based on their testimonies, producing some of the street signs in Maré. .

2010

Exhibition "Gordon Matta-Clark Undoing Space" at Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro. Azulejaria students were invited to participate in the production of the Garbage Wall (garbage wall), an iconic piece in this artist's exhibitions around the world. As part of the exhibition, the work Garbage Wall [garbage wall] was rebuilt with Azulejaria and students from the art workshops of Redes da Maré, and with employees of Paço.

2006

Start of Azulejaria actions with the Petrobras Children's Program in Maré. l Azulejaria wins the Urbanidade Award, from the Institute of Architects of Brazil (IAB), for uniting culture and social responsibility. l Inauguration of the first panels at Maré: "O Guarani na Nova Holanda", inspired by the works of José de Alencar and Carlos Gomes; and "Maré, the origins of the neighborhood", with students from Morro do Timbau.