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Eva Rocha

is a Brazilian-American multimedia artist, and was a 2022-23 Folger Artistic Fellow. Her personal experiences and cross-disciplinary studies in theater, anthropology, cultural studies, and kinetic imaging in Brazil, Peru, and the United States permeate and inform her interest in the language and embodiment of collective trauma and its archiving into objects.
"What’s in a name?" That which we call [primitive] by any other word...
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"What’s in a name?" That which we call [primitive] by any other word...

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Eva Rocha

Artist Eva Rocha’s multimedia work investigates processes of dehumanization and in this post she looks at early colonial depictions of “Original Peoples”.