Brazilian visual artist Marilene Ribeiro will talk about her recently published book Photo-Rituals for Disappearance at the Cafe Bar and Bookshop at The Photographer’s Gallery on Thursday 13th March. The talk will be followed by a Book Signing.

Photo-Rituals for Disappearance is a limited-edition, hand-made book which creates a dialogue amongst various elements and invites the reader to a journey into magic to speak about female healers, History and women’s rights.

By revealing rituals for “disappearance” that Marilene Ribeiro conceives and performs with other women to heal a traumatic experience of love and death she had, the book ‘Photo-Rituals for Disappearance’ celebrates the ancient, magical way women have to deal with love and remedy. By absorbing the aura of pagan rituals to praise the powers of care and healing inherited from female shamans, healers and midwives, she shapes a form of resistance, a counterpoint to the stigmatization and persecution of the female being we have lived over time –labelled as “witch”, “hag”. ‘Photo-Rituals for Disappearance’ deconstructs that misogynistic discourse and brings about a new perspective based on the power of the ‘woman-being’. The book brings together elements from various sources that connect the Global North with the Global South, past with present, and photography with other media (illustration, expired analogue film, 17th-century women’s recipes for natural remedies, current-time fortune teller leaflets, cyanotype and poetry).

To find out more please go to the direct link.