Angélica Dass

Angélica Dass (born 1979) is a Brazilian photographer based in Madrid[1] and the creator of the project Humanæ.[2] She gave a TED talk in March 2016 called "The beauty of human skin in every color" about how skin colors "make us see each other as different, even though we are equal."[3]

Biography

Angélica Dass was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1979.

Work

Angelica's work transcends museums and finds a large universe of work in school classrooms. She achieves a lot of success as a motivational speaker.

She has lectured at many famous universities, such as the University of Salamanca, the University of Bologna, or the UERJ - Rio de Janeiro.[4]

Project Humanæ

She created her portrait project Humanæ in 2012[5] while studying at Spain's ETI.[6] She began with photographs of her Spanish husband, herself and their families. She then matched a strip of pixels from the noses to color cards from Pantone.[7] It is a catalogue of human skin colors that are displayed as a collage of Pantone portraits.[8] The display is intended to create a dialogue about how we see each other and how we view race, ethnicity and identity[9] and has included over 4,000 pictures of people in 17 countries and 27 cities around the world.[10] Humanæ is a traveling exhibit[11] and has been in such places as the Daelim Museum in Seoul, South Korea; the Uribitarte Promenade, in Bilbao, Spain; the Upho Urban Photo Festival in Malaga, Spain; the Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, in Milan, Italy; and Habitat III, UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, in Quito, Ecuador;[12] the Migration Museum in London,[13] Kingsport, Tennessee and International Photography Festival in Israel.[14]

References
  1. "Meet the woman making a point about race by photographing every human skin tone". Newsweek. 19 September 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  2. "Humanae by Angélica Dass". Vogue (in Italian). 16 February 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  3. Dass, Angélica. "Angélica Dass | Speaker | TED". Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  4. "About". Angélica Dass. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  5. Macdonald, Fiona. "The artist who reveals our Pantone shades". Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  6. "AQ Top 5 Latin American Art Activists: Angélica Dass". americasquarterly.org. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  7. "An Artist Finds True Skin Colors in a Diverse Palette". Magazine. 12 March 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  8. Angelica Dass's 'Humanae' breaks down categories of race, 17 July 2018, retrieved 20 November 2018
  9. "Where in the world has Humanae been?". TED Blog. 23 February 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  10. Macdonald, Fiona. "The artist who reveals our Pantone shades". Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  11. "An Artist Finds True Skin Colors in a Diverse Palette". 12 March 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  12. "Where in the world has Humanae been?". TED Blog. 23 February 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  13. "Meet the woman making a point about race by photographing every human skin tone". Newsweek. 19 September 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  14. Israel: 200 artists flock to Int'l Photography Fest, retrieved 24 July 2019


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