Brazilian artists
FRAGRANT BODIES. AN INTERVIEW WITH KAROLA BRAGA
To truly comprehend and appreciate my work, one must be physically present, engaging with it through their bodies. Its essence depends on our presence. Yes, it will dissipate, and yes, it will evade capture, but that is precisely the point.
ZAHY TENTEHAR. MÁQUINA ANCESTRAL: UREIPY
Throughout her video practice, Tentehar has spoken about the Guajajara social movement known as the Guardians of the Forest, a group that inhabits and protects Arariboia Indigenous Land located in the north-eastern edge of the Amazon rainforest.
VIVIAN CACCURI AND MILES GREENBERG: THE SHADOW OF SPRING
The artists invite audiences to experience how sound waves affect our bodies and to consider the manifold ideological, mechanical, spiritual, and symbolic aspects expressed by sound. With works that point to the unseen dimensions of life and subjectivity, the installation calls attention to the invisible bonds that connect us to one another
ABRAHAM PALATNIK: SEISMOGRAPH OF COLOR
Nara Roesler presents the first retrospective of Brazilian artist Abraham Palatnik (1928-2020) in New York. Curated by Luis Pérez-Oramas, it presents a selection of works that reveal Palatnik’s fundamental role in Brazilian art in the second half of the twentieth century. It also highlights the relevance and pioneer character of his production in conceptualizing works of visual art as force fields, mediums of energy, and vectors of chromatic dynamism.
THREE PROMINENT EXHIBITIONS FROM VORTIC’S OUT COLLECTIVE
As part of a collaboration between Vortic, Artishock and Artgonotlar in Istanbul, and aiming to open spaces for under-represented artists, we selected three exhibitions from the OUT Collective project that stand out for their relevance today as socio-political and gender narratives and for their curatorial approach.
ANNA MARIA MAIOLINO: IN THE SKY I AM ONE AND MANY AND AS A HUMAN I AM EVERYTHING AND NOTHING
Anna Maria Maiolino (b. 1942) is one of the most significant women artists working in Brazil today. The Italian-born Brazilian artist’s first institutional solo exhibition in Switzerland, at Kunsthaus Baselland, features a selection of her early videos, films, photographs, poems, and texts, spanning a narrative arc through her artistic work and life from the 1970s to the present. She converses here with curator and Art Historian Ines Goldbach.
AAA – ANTHOLOGY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Bergamin & Gomide and Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel present «AAA – Anthology of Art and Architecture», an online exhibition curated by Sol Camacho, urbanist, architect, Principal at RADDAR Architecture, and Cultural Director of Instituto Bardi / Casa de Vidro. The show features more than 100 works by Brazilian artists, architects and designers, proposing a reflection on the social function, methods and history of architecture.
AGAINST, AGAIN: ART UNDER ATTACK IN BRAZIL
The exhibition «Against, Again: Art Under Attack in Brazil» addresses the present transnational wave of authoritarianism by featuring a number of art practices that have responded to oppression in Brazil. Since the rise of a conservative political movement in the last few years that resulted in the election of a far-right president in 2018, threats and attacks against politicians, activists, intellectuals and artists have skyrocketed.
Solange Pessoa:longilonge
Ballroom Marfa presents the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa (Ferros, 1961). Pessoa’s practice is deeply rooted in land, human and natural history. In this focused exhibition, she gathers together references, materials and iconography from the environment of her homeland in Minas Gerais and Far West Texas, creating a conversation between shared forms and interwoven cosmogonies.
Paulo Nazareth:melee
The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA Miami) presents the first solo US museum exhibition for Paulo Nazareth (b. 1977). «Melee» spans Nazareth’s work across mediums, including monumental and ephemeral sculpture, photography, video, and installations. Drawing on his Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous heritages, Nazareth brings the histories of marginalized groups into focus in an exhibition that is relevant to both the global and local Brazilian diaspora, while speaking to broad political conversations on issues of injustice and oppression.