About
editMarcelo Schellini is an artist and assistant professor of screen studies at Curtin University, Malaysia. His research and visual practice explore relationships between identity, photography, political imagination, and other aspects of photographic ubiquity in everyday life. He holds a PhD in Visual Poetics from the University of Sao Paulo, and a Master’s Degree in Visual Culture Studies from the University of Barcelona.[1] He is an associate fellow at the Center of Conservation for Sustainable Ethnic Heritage, Museum of Malacca, Malaysia.[2]
Notable Work
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In the year 2019, he was selected in the open call "Nova Fotografia’’ (New Photography) of the MIS (São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound), to display the photographic essay Tarikh al-Brasil.[3] The work that was incorporated into the collection of the museum in 2020 has been displayed and published in different places and a variety of media since then. Consequently, it became one of the artist's most notable works.[4][5]
The title Tarikh al-Brasil can be translated from Arabic as History of Brazil and is a visual research of the visibility/invisibility of Muslims of African descent in Brazilian history and society.[6] African Muslims first arrived in the Americas through the Atlantic slave trade more than four hundred years ago.[7] Even though they were enslaved, they exerted a significant socio-cultural influence that was instrumental in the triggering of numerous freedom uprisings, especially the Levante dos Malês (Malê revolt) of 1835, which is its most prominent historical chapter.[8]
According to the author, Tarikh al-Brasil reflects on the possibilities of seeing and reviewing through a photographic practice that drives the image to the limit between the document and the invention.[9][10]
References
edit- ^ "Dr Marcelo Schellini - Humanities - Curtin University, Sarawak Malaysia". Humanities. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ "CaSEH-PERZIM - Associate Fellow". www.caseh.org. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ "MIS expõe fotos sobre muçulmanos de origem africana no Brasil". Orientalíssimo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ "Ramadã em São Paulo". Fotografia - Folha de S.Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ "African Muslims in Brazil - Muslim Views". 2024-03-28. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ BenGhida, Djamil; Schellini, Marcelo (2024-10-31). "Shadows Amidst: Cultural Identity in the Spectrum of Visibility and Invisibility". Photography and Culture: 1–10. doi:10.1080/17514517.2024.2414685. ISSN 1751-4517.
- ^ Reis, João José (1993). Slave rebellion in Brazil: the Muslim uprising of 1835 in Bahia. Johns Hopkins studies in Atlantic history and culture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-4462-1.
- ^ "Marcelo Schellini". FLOAT. 2021-07-22. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ BenGhida, Djamil; Schellini, Marcelo (2024-10-31). "Shadows Amidst: Cultural Identity in the Spectrum of Visibility and Invisibility". Photography and Culture: 1–10. doi:10.1080/17514517.2024.2414685. ISSN 1751-4517.
- ^ Museu da Imagem e do Som (2022-05-19). Bate-papo sobre a exposição Tarikh Al-Brasil | Prosa de Tripé – Pontos MIS. Retrieved 2024-11-06 – via YouTube.