#5 Cítric Territory
Because art does not pass: it remains.
This edition marks the closing of Arte Cítrica’s first cycle. Not as a balance sheet, nor as a closed archive, but as territory — alive, pulsating, inhabited. We bring together texts that reflect on the year 2025 and on the birth of Arte Cítrica. More than a retrospective, this edition takes shape as a field of presence: diverse voices, undisciplined languages, gestures that resist easy labels. Works that coexist, create tension, recognize one another, and continue to reverberate.
Taking this moment to reflect on what brought us here, we also gather — in dialogue with the magazine — artists who crossed Arte Cítrica’s first year of existence, presented as well in our first virtual exhibition, Cítric Territory. Each page carries traces of time, thought, and experience. There is no hierarchy, no straight line. What exists is coexistence. Affinity. Friction. Continuity.
In this edition:
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Sound Maps of Contemporaneity: Retrospective of the 23rd IASPM International Seminar – Paris, 2025
An account of the experiences of our International Correspondent at the event held at Sorbonne University, Paris.
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Cítric Journey: art, courage, and reinvention — the birth of the Cítric Revolution—
Tathy Zimmermann shares the paths, challenges, and crossings of Arte Cítrica’s first year.
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My entrance into the world of letters—
Pri Fernandes leads an intimate and sensitive conversation about her journey into the pages of the magazine.
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What brought us here: between the acid that burns and the sweetness that heals—
The manifesto that closes this cycle and projects the horizon of what lies ahead.
To close a cycle here is to recognize the path traveled in order to move forward with greater clarity.
An edition to remain. To look again. To understand that this territory continues to expand.
#3 Insurgence of the Word
Because literature is never neutral, it is always an act of insubmission.
An edition that celebrates literature as an act of resistance. Between silences, fragments, and powerful voices, each text sparks insurgency, inviting you to think, feel, and question.
In this edition:
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The Eternal Quest for the “Self” in Clarice Lispector’s Stories
Dive into Pri Fernandes’ analysis of Lispector’s stories, where the “self” is built amid silence and shards of memory.
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Redeeming Medea
Philosopher Laurene Veras offers a critical reading of Euripides’ tragedy and its reinterpretation in Lars Von Trier’s work, reflecting on power, gender, and resistance.
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What is Art? Part II – When Art Escapes Its Frames: Ruptures, Rebellions, and Sensory Revolutions
Historian and artist Tathy Zimmermann revisits the avant-garde, experimentation, and multiplicity of artistic creation, traveling through the 20th and 21st centuries.
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“I Am the Monster” – Hilda Hilst’s Poetics for Children
Author and professor Carla Viccini explores Hilst’s work, revealing how childhood imagination transforms into art that touches, provokes, and questions.
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Interview with Barbara Lia
We talk with the writer and poet about her work, creative processes, and the insurgency of the word in every literary gesture.
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Art in Action
Beyond the texts, the edition features artists who gift us visual creations, performances, and images that dialogue with each literary reflection, completing the mosaic of the insurgency of the word.
An edition to read, feel, and let every word cut, move, and transform.
#3 Insurgence of the Word
Because literature is never neutral, it is always an act of insubmission.
An edition that celebrates literature as an act of resistance. Between silences, fragments, and powerful voices, each text sparks insurgency, inviting you to think, feel, and question.
In this edition:
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The Eternal Quest for the “Self” in Clarice Lispector’s Stories
Dive into Pri Fernandes’ analysis of Lispector’s stories, where the “self” is built amid silence and shards of memory.
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Redeeming Medea
Philosopher Laurene Veras offers a critical reading of Euripides’ tragedy and its reinterpretation in Lars Von Trier’s work, reflecting on power, gender, and resistance.
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What is Art? Part II – When Art Escapes Its Frames: Ruptures, Rebellions, and Sensory Revolutions
Historian and artist Tathy Zimmermann revisits the avant-garde, experimentation, and multiplicity of artistic creation, traveling through the 20th and 21st centuries.
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“I Am the Monster” – Hilda Hilst’s Poetics for Children
Author and professor Carla Viccini explores Hilst’s work, revealing how childhood imagination transforms into art that touches, provokes, and questions.
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Interview with Barbara Lia
We talk with the writer and poet about her work, creative processes, and the insurgency of the word in every literary gesture.
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Art in Action
Beyond the texts, the edition features artists who gift us visual creations, performances, and images that dialogue with each literary reflection, completing the mosaic of the insurgency of the word.
An edition to read, feel, and let every word cut, move, and transform.
#2 — Depths of Art
An edition that dives where light does not reach: where art beats, bleeds, and plays.
What will you find in our pages?
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Manifesto of Playful Philosophy
Angélica Sátiro invites us to play with ideas — to think as we play, to play as we philosophize. Because philosophy can also be chalk lines on the pavement. -
What is Art? Part I – A Journey from Antiquity to the 19th Century
Tathy Zimmermann, artist and historian, crosses centuries of debates, salons, and ruptures to remind us: there is no single answer, but a kaleidoscope of meanings. -
Interview with the Ideosphera Collective
Anarchic, untamed, incendiary art. A collective born from basements, shards, and cracks — proof that art can be comet, ruin, and explosion. -
Art as Catharsis
Katia Velo writes about the alchemy of pain and beauty, reminding us that to live is, always, a creative act.
An edition to let yourself be pierced by: between laughter and wounds, kites and clenched fists, art as balm and fire.
Special Dossier “I’m Still Here”
An edition that breathes cinema, memory, and resistance. Walter Salles’s film, winner of the 2025 Oscar, serves as a starting point for an intense dive: Eunice Paiva, her path marked by pain and courage, and the fight for truth that still resonates today.
What will you find in our pages?
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Eunice Paiva: when cinema breaks the silence
Filmmaker Ermeson Vieira Gondim opens the issue by analyzing how silence can be shattered by the camera. -
The artists are still present (and here)
Filmmaker and visual artist César Meneghetti reminds us that artists are — and will always be — on the frontline against erasure. -
We need to find a way, my friend
Philosopher and writer Laurene Veras connects Erasmo Carlos’s song to the brutal contrast between celebration and violence, showing how the smile, even in dark times, is a gesture of resistance. -
Eunice Paiva and the wounds of memory: an essay on resistance and freedom
In the historical section, visual artist and historian Tathy Zimmermann draws the portrait of Eunice Paiva, who transformed mourning into activism for human rights and Indigenous peoples. -
Interview with Moara Tupinambá
The artist shares her vision on how to reverberate Indigenous ancestry through creation and struggle. -
I’m still here: history and music intertwined
As a vibrant closing, singer and historian Priscilla Barbosa guides us through a soundtrack that amplifies and deepens the narrative — where music and memory merge in resistance.
An edition to feel, remember, and never forget: art as a flame kept alive against silence.
Issue Zero
Zero. The starting point. The fertile void. The blank canvas that already contains all possibilities. It is in this space between fear and ecstasy that Arte Cítrica is born: as invitation, as discovery, as transformation. Zero is seed, is potential, is what flourishes in multiple directions.
In this issue
The debut of Arte Cítrica dives into works, ideas, and crossings that explore zero as origin, absence, and promise:
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The body as object: Marina Abramović and Rhythm 0
Philosopher and psychoanalyst Gustavo Jugend analyzes the Serbian artist’s brutal performance and reflects on violence, objectification, and the “Lacanian zero” as a symbol of the non-existent that paradoxically exists. -
The Panels of Saint Vincent: the enigmatic painting of Nuno Gonçalves
Text by Tathy Zimmermann on the controversial Portuguese polyptych that resists time and interpretation. -
Interview with Christopher Zoellner
The artist and designer talks about his experience in Taiwan and how his graphic and textile art transforms surfaces into visual narratives. -
From zero: Brazilian music in diaspora
Historian and singer Priscilla Barbosa writes about the program Más Allá de la Bossa Nova and the creative power of Brazilian music produced abroad.
