Angélica Dass

Angélica Dass was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1979.[4] She currently lives in Madrid, Spain.[5]

Angelica's work goes beyond museums and is used in classrooms.[6] She has lectured at many famous universities, such as the University of Salamanca, the University of Bologna, or the UERJ - Rio de Janeiro.[5]She has also lectured at Tate Modern and the National Geographic and the World Economic Forum.[7]

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She created her portrait project Humanæ in 2012[8] while studying at Spain's ETI.[9] She began with photographs of her Spanish husband, herself and their families. By matching a strip of pixels from the nose of a person's photograph to color cards from Pantone,[10] she has created a catalogue of human skin colors that are displayed as a collage of Pantone portraits.[11] The display is intended to create a dialogue about how we see each other and how we view race, ethnicity and identity[12] It includes over 4,000 pictures of people in 17 countries and 27 cities around the world.[13]

Humanæ is a traveling exhibit[14] and has been in such places as the Daelim Museum in Seoul, South Korea; the Uribitarte Promenade, in Bilbao, Spain; the Upho Urban Photo Festival in Malaga, Spain; the Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, in Milan, Italy; and Habitat III, UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, in Quito, Ecuador;[15] the Migration Museum in London,[16] Kingsport, Tennessee and International Photography Festival in Israel.[17]