Francisco Proner - Black Canvas - The Landless Movement

Francisco Proner — Black Canvas – The Landless Movement

Exhibition from 11 November 2024 to 16 February 2025

Centre culturel fédéral de la justice (CCJF)
Gabinete de Fotografia
Av. Rio Branco, 241
Centro, Rio de Janeiro – Brésil / Brazil

Open Tuesday to Sunday, 11am to 7pm.

This exhibition brings together 30 photographs taken in 2022 by photographer Francisco Proner, in collaboration with the Landless Movement (MST).

The Landless Workers Movement (MST), founded in 1982, has three objectives: to fight for land, for agrarian reform and for social change in the country. Brazil is one of the countries with the highest concentration of land in the world; it is also the territory with the largest landowners. Concentration and unproductivity have historical roots that have established the basis for the country’s social inequality that persists to this day.

Francico Proner travelled through the five main regions of Brazil, visiting territories that are emblematic of the struggle for agrarian reform. From the birthplace of the MST in Cascavel (Paraná) to Eldorado dos Carajás, the site of the massacre of 21 landless workers in 1996, he visited numerous settlements and camps. His work illustrates the perseverance and resistance of the peasants, particularly in the run-up to the 2022 elections.