To mark the 10th anniversary of the MEG's new building, Marara Kelly is honouring us with her presence to rock the walls of the Museum and set the decks alight!

Marara Kelly creates mixes that bring together her research into baile funk and technobrega. With many elements of pop culture presented through remixes, she invites the public to identify with a foreign sound whose beat is the disruptive element. She interprets the practice of remixing pop songs, one of the most present features of the baile funk and technobrega scene, as a gesture of reappropriation of the common imaginary and decolonization through belonging, which translates into music full of fun, sensuality and power. Her musical research begins with the sounds of the Brazilian Amazon, where she was born, and intersects with the baile funk of Rio, where she lived for several years. She has mixed across the continental country of Brazil and the European continent in a wide variety of contexts. Her travels have greatly influenced the way she mixes, which could be imagined as the gesture of tying a knot that joins the places she passes through, her identity, feelings of belonging and the politics of coexistence. For her, mixing means being able to share a little of what's going on in her body, while a Brazilian body means being able to mix her culture with unfamiliar bodies through music, dance and her artistic practice, performance.