Arturos Series

Arturos is a quilombo, a self-governing territory in Brazil established by fugitives from enslavement and maintained by their descendants. A related Pan-Africanist philosophy called Quilombismo holds that oppressed peoples must practice self-sufficiency and effectively secede from the wider world to assure their survival. Eustáquio Neves spent time in Arturos, a quilombo of about 500 residents, soon after repurposing his chemistry training to become an art photographer. Through darkroom manipulation he pictured Arturos as a contemporary dreamscape shrouded behind a border that also looks like the gateway to another realm.