ARUS FEMIA (whose translation from Guinean Creole to Portuguese is “female rice”) is inspired by Guinean women whose hair would become storehouses of ancestral wisdom — human, botanical, spiritual. In the New World, women shook their heads and the seeds that fertilized the earth were released from their hair.
ARUS FEMIA, an inexorable tactography carried out by performers or irans (spirits/divinities) or kankurans (guardian spirits of initiation rituals) or humanphibians, a performance or a spell that is carried out in solemnity, where dystopian scenarios are obsolete mirages. — Zia Soares