When a very important mãe de santo dies, her soul becomes incarnated into a heron on the Paraguaçu River, and flies back to Africa. At the border between fiction and reality, magic and technology, Heráclito discusses his piece Funfun, a requiem to Mãe Stelita, the perpetual judge to the Brotherhood of the Good Death, in Bahia. The artist recounts how he came across the scene captured in film, at a friend’s house. Shortly after the religious woman was buried, while he and his friend were having coffee, they watched as the herons flew, immediately after his friend told him about the myth of the heron. Magic, according to the artist, is the compendium of different mythologies, especially Afro-Brazilian ones, which offer different forms of consciousness and of being in the world.
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