Marcelo Schellini
{{Infobox artist
| image = Marcello Schellini.jpg
| alt = Marcelo Schellini in 2020
| birth_name = Marcelo Artioli Schellini
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1979}}
| birth_place = Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil
| nationality = Brazilian, Italian
| known_for = Photography
}}
Marcelo Schellini (born 1979){{Cite web |last=ArtFacts |title=Marcelo Schellini {{!}} Artist |url=https://artfacts.net/artist/marcelo-schellini/1024036 |access-date=2025-01-30 |website=ArtFacts |language=en}} is an art practitioner and an assistant professor specialising in photography and film studies at Curtin University, Malaysia. His research and creative practice explore the intersections of identity, photography, political imagination, and the pervasive influence of photography in contemporary life. He earned a PhD in Visual Poetics from the University of São Paulo and a Master's Degree in Visual Culture Studies from the University of Barcelona.{{Cite web |title=Dr Marcelo Schellini - Humanities - Curtin University, Sarawak Malaysia |url=https://humanities.curtin.edu.my/departments/mediaculturecommunication/our-people/dr-marcelo-schellini/ |access-date=2024-12-12 |website=Humanities |language=en-GB}} Marcelo Schellini is an associate fellow at the Center for Conservation of Sustainable Ethnic Heritage at the Museum of Malacca, Malaysia.{{Cite web |title=CaSEH-PERZIM - Associate Fellow |url=https://www.caseh.org/organization/associate-fellow |access-date=2024-12-12 |website=www.caseh.org |language=en-US}}
Notable work
In 2019, Marcelo Schellini was selected in the open call "Nova Fotografia” (New Photography) of the MIS (São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound) to display the photographic essay Tarikh al-Brasil.{{Cite web |title=MIS expõe fotos sobre muçulmanos de origem africana no Brasil |url=https://orientalissimo.blogfolha.uol.com.br/2021/05/03/mis-expoe-fotos-sobre-muculmanos-de-origem-africana-no-brasil/ |access-date=2024-12-12 |website=Orientalíssimo |language=pt-BR}} The work, incorporated into the museum's collection in 2020, has been exhibited and published in various places and media since then. Consequently, it became one of the artist's most notable works.{{Cite web |date=2019-05-05 |title=Ramadã em São Paulo |url=https://fotografia.folha.uol.com.br/galerias/1632728588941519-ramada-em-sao-paulo |access-date=2024-12-12 |website=Fotografia - Folha de S.Paulo |language=pt-BR}}{{Cite web |date=2024-03-28 |title=African Muslims in Brazil - Muslim Views |url=https://muslimviews.co.za/african-muslims-in-brazil/ |access-date=2024-12-12 |language=en-ZA}}
The title Tarikh al-Brasil, translated from Arabic as “History of Brazil”, represents a visual exploration of the visibility and invisibility of Muslims of African descent within Brazilian history and society.{{Cite journal |last=BenGhida |first=Djamil |last2=Schellini |first2=Marcelo |date=2024-10-31 |title=Shadows Amidst: Cultural Identity in the Spectrum of Visibility and Invisibility |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17514517.2024.2414685 |journal=Photography and Culture |language=en |pages=1–10 |doi=10.1080/17514517.2024.2414685 |issn=1751-4517}} African Muslims first arrived in the Americas over four centuries ago via the Atlantic slave trade.{{Cite book |last=Reis |first=João José |title=Slave rebellion in Brazil: the Muslim uprising of 1835 in Bahia |date=1995 |publisher=the Johns Hopkins university press |isbn=978-0-8018-4462-1 |series=Johns Hopkins studies in Atlantic history and culture |location=Baltimore (Md.)}} Despite their enslavement, they played a pivotal socio-cultural role, sparking numerous freedom uprisings, most notably the Levante dos Malês (Malê Revolt) of 1835, a defining chapter of the African diaspora history.
According to the author, Tarikh al-Brasil explores the potential of photography to navigate the boundary between documentation and invention, inviting reflection on how we see and reinterpret history.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekq_S35WqlY |title=Bate-papo sobre a exposição Tarikh Al-Brasil {{!}} Prosa de Tripé – Pontos MIS |date=2022-05-19 |last=Museu da Imagem e do Som |access-date=2024-12-12 |via=YouTube}}
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Category:Brazilian photographers
Category:University of São Paulo alumni
Category:University of Barcelona alumni