Visual Art Culture of São Paulo and Beyond
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This intricate group exhibition, forming a constellation of works in dialogue with that by Stanley Brouwn, spatializes the archives, makes us walk among objects, and challenges the notions of history, art production, authorship and permanence.
Brazil’s top portrait photographer discusses the aftermath of El Niño’s sweeping destruction of his studio and photo archives, and how the textured destruction of the prints had involuntarily transformed them into conceptual images, metaphors for human fragility, humidity, history.
Taking place at Sesc 24 de Maio in São Paulo, the exhibition focuses on video, moving image and audiovisual productions from the Global South. Sixty artists from thirty-eight countries come together and respond to a theme inspired by Brazilian poet Waly Salomão’s idea that “memory is an editing station.”
Curator Alexia Tala discusses narratives aimed at sustainability, environment, identity and Mayan cosmovision regarding her exhibition featuring over thirty works by sixteen Latin American artists from Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Chile and Brazil.
The artists’ seventies “supra-sensorial” project “Cosmoscocas,” made including images of the exhilarating powder that could get them in trouble, was a series of multi-media installations meant to provide leisure, immersion and safe spaces of exploration.
Having been attending Bienal de São Paulo since the eighties, author Cynthia Garcia reflects on the unforgettable moments from the past iterations and recommends the must-sees and must-goes from the current one.
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