|
Érica Zíngano
|
Érica Zíngano (b.1980 in Fortaleza, Brazil) reflects with humour in the library, at home and in the pavement on her own poetic creation. In her poems and other visual works Érica Zíngano underlines the everyday with a marked rhythmicality, using apparently banal images in order to uncover the tensions within language. Without false modesty she interrogates the literary tradition – Camões, Madame Bovary, but also the Guinness Book of Records as well as Google become sources for her ambiguous poems. Érica Zíngano has taken part in several poetry festivals and readings, including the reVERSible project at the 2012 poesiefestival berlin. In 2014, together with Brazilian artist and performer Luísa Nóbrega and Argentinean poet and artist Cristian Forte (and others) she won first prize in the international literature festival SOUNDOUT – New Ways of Presenting Literature run by the Lettrétage literature centre in Berlin-Kreuzberg. For 2018 she was awarded a working fellowship for non-German-language literature by the Senate Administration for Culture and Europe of the Land Berlin.
Publications:
fio, fenda, falésia, 2010
Pé-de-Cabra ou Rabo de Saia – eis uma Dúvida cruel!, 2012
Ich weiß nicht warum – Zeichnungen und Texte für Unica Zürn, hochroth: Berlin 2013
eine Sache für eine andere, bulky news press 2017– a collective book with Lotti Thießen, Nathalie Quintane, Marion Breton, Rob Packer, Odile Kennel, Mercedes M. and Marília Garcia.