Dark Venus is an exploration of self-mythology as a DECOLONIAL STRATEGY for LIBERATION. Alma Silva has spent the last years immersing herself in spirituality, esotericism, and spectrality to find healing and to develop a language for the darker aspects of love. Alma Silva uses this language to build a character titled Dark Venus. Dark Venus represents the shadow of love, which asks us to confront our darkest, most hidden depths in order to find a freer way of loving. Dark Venus embodies dark femininity, mystery, power, and liberation, which Alma Silva experiments with by inhabiting multiple spheres, such as text, sound, movement, and video.

The hope is to address the following questions: When does fiction cross into reality and is there a need for such distinction? Can self-mythology combat the whitewashing of spirituality and unearth deeper forms of ancestry? Can self-mythology become part of a larger strategy of black fugitivity to subvert colonial narratives about selfhood and love? What’s the role and history of Afro-Brazilian syncretism in all of this?