BUNDA PANDEIRO

Bunda Pandeiro is the second chapter of a trilogy examining the social construction of gender and race in the contemporary world. Drawing from Brazilian slang—where the phrase refers to attractive buttocks as a “tambourine”—the video work reduces each participant to the utilitarian function of a musical instrument.

By suspending traditional sexual roles and destabilizing markers of gender and ethnicity, the work stages a “body concert” in which the body becomes a percussive surface rather than an object of desire. The tambourine, devoid of gender, race, or sexual orientation, becomes a metaphor for a form of identity defined solely by its sonic output.

Through this performative abstraction, Bunda Pandeiro exposes the mechanisms through which bodies are eroticized, categorized, and instrumentalized, while simultaneously proposing a critical displacement of normative frameworks of identity and desire.