Exhibition "O que se degrada segue em frente" | Ana Clara Tito

Supernova

 

MAM Rio launches solo exhibition programme, 

which includes artistic production from different regions of the country 

 

The project will be inaugurated with an exhibition by Ana Clara Tito, who developed 

unpublished works in response to the museum's space 

 

The Modern Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio) launches in October the project Supernovaproject, which traces a panorama of contemporary artistic production in Brazil. The program of individual exhibitions creates a platform of commissioned works and maps the practices that constitute contemporaneity according to diverse contexts and multiple languages. Curated by Beatriz Lemos, Keyna Eleison e Pablo Lafuente, Supernova opens with four artists from different geographies and distinct practices: Ana Clara Tito, Militina Garcia Serejo, Sallisa Rosa e Uýra Sodoma. The project is sponsored by XP Private.

 

Each exhibition offers an exceptional situation, similar to the astronomical Supernova phenomenon*. According to Beatriz Lemos, "the program opens space for artists whose poetics and presences are established in constant negotiation with the art system." For the curator, by inviting artists from multiple geographies to develop individual exhibition projects, MAM Rio also becomes a space for professional training, offering artists the opportunity to become familiar with the institution's own processes: "The exhibitions will present mostly new works, designed to occupy the museum from the relationship with its surroundings and architecture".

 

On October 9, the exhibition What is degraded moves onby Ana Clara Tito, marks the launching of the program. Still in November of this year, it will be Sallisa Rosa's turn. Uýra Sodoma and Militina Garcia Serejo will have their individual shows in 2022, as part of the MAM Rio programme. Each exhibition will always be accompanied by a monographic publication, contributing to a broad representation of the Brazilian contemporary art scene.

 

Ana Clara Tito's individual work is focused on a specific work that she which she calls "complex, a type of work that I prefer not to call installation," she explains. Based on this concept, the artist's works will occupy the walls and floor of the MAM Rio exhibition area, creating a continuum of objects, materials and compositions until February 6, 2022.

 

Fabio Szwarcwald, institutional director of MAM Rio, considers the project to be of the utmost importance: "Thinking about Brazilian art from the point of view of diverse productions, in languages and authorship, is fundamental in understanding who we are. The panorama presented by Supernovaas an ongoing program of the museum, will be effective for us to get to know the many 'Brasis' from North to South, East to West".

*Supernova* is a powerful and luminous stellar explosion. This transient astronomical event occurs during the last evolutionary stages of a massive star or when a

stellar remnant initiates an uncontrolled nuclear fusion. The optical brightness peak of a supernova can be comparable to that of an entire galaxy.

About Ana Clara Tito | What degrades moves on

 

Born in 1993 in Bom Jardim (RJ), the artist reveals in her production an interest in the fields of archeology and architecture, transforming civil construction materials into sculptural, installation and photographic works. Ana Clara has a degree in Industrial Design from Uerj, with part of her studies at York University in Toronto and Canada. She has held solo exhibitions at the Centro Cultural São Paulo, Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica and Fundação de Artes de Niterói.

 

The artist collects materials in the streets, takes them to her studio and develops her own techniques, such as wire cakes that are tied up in unusual ways: "I do many things with these materials that I understand as bodies, which have stories and bring me something. In this dialogue between me and the material, my work reveals itself. I am interested in the entrails, so I usually take structural construction materials, which have no coating, and I always try to see if these fragments reveal some other material to me", comments Tito. "As an example of my relationship with these objects, in one of the works I have rebar at my feet, which I bend over my own body and, in this act, I create a sculpture".

 

Ana Clara has been developing the production for the project Supernova in the studio installed at Moinho Fluminense, in a partnership between the space and MAM Rio.

 

About Sallisa Rosa, Militina Garcia Serejo and Uýra Sodoma

 

Sallisa Rosa (opening 13 November) 

Sallisa Rosa was born in Goiânia (GO) and currently lives in Rio de Janeiro. She works with art as a path and intuitive experiences, fiction, territory and nature; her practice circulates between photography and video, but also installations and participatory works. Finalist of the PIPA 2020 award, she was featured in the exhibition Feminist stories: artists after 2000 at the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (MASP, 2019), VAIVÉM, at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro (2019), at the Bienal do Barro, Caruaru (2019), Strategies of the Feminine, Farol Santander, Porto Alegre (2019), Pampulha Museum of Art, Belo Horizonte (2019) and Dja Guata Porã: Indigenous Rio de Janeiro., Rio Museum of Art, Rio de Janeiro (2017).

 

2022 shows:

Militina Garcia Serejo

He is a quilombola leader from Mamuna, in the Alcântara region (MA). Alcântara is the municipality with the largest number of quilombos in Brazil: there are more than 3.3 thousand families, around 22 thousand people, distributed in almost 200 communities. In her work, Ms. Militina, as she is called, collects works that reach the beach in front of her house, such as fish and dolphin bones, objects and fossils, which she collects in dialogue with her daily life and her relationship with the environment.

Uyrá Sodom

Emerson Munduruku is a biologist, master in ecology, art educator and indigenous visual artist. He is a human rights activist and lives in Manaus, an industrial territory in the middle of central Amazonia, where he embodies the monster Uýra Sodoma, an entity in animal and plant flesh. Through organic materials in her make-up and costumes, she lives a tree that walks. In photography of characterizations and performances, she denounces the violence to living systems and (re)tells stories of enchantment existing in the city-forest landscape.

 

About MAM Rio

 

MAM Rio is a cultural institution constituted as a non-profit civil society of public interest, supported by individuals and companies, which currently has as a strategic partnership the Vale Cultural Institute and as master sponsor the PetraGold Group, a Petrobras and Ternium.

 

Since January 2020, MAM Rio's new management has initiated a process of profound institutional transformation, involving new ideas, new workflows and new attitudes. The actions of this process seek coherence with the museum's original project, guided by the art-education-culture tripod, a movement to enhance the actions already carried out at the museum, in line with its history, and to welcome all who have enjoyed the effervescence of MAM Rio's various spaces, including audiences who have never visited the institution. 

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SUPERNOVA 

 

Ana Clara Tito, What degrades moves on

Opening: 9 October 2021

Closing date: 6 February 2022

 

MAM Rio

End: av. Infante Dom Henrique, 85

Aterro do Flamengo - Rio de Janeiro

Tel: (21) 3883-5600

https://www.mam.rio/

Instagram: @mam.rio

 

Schedule:

Thursdays and Fridays, from 1pm to 6pm

Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, from 10am to 6pm

Tickets:

Suggested contribution, with free access option
Suggested values:
Adults: R$ 20

Children, students and +60: R$ 10 

Online tickets: www.mam.rio/ingressos

 

NOTICE: According to the Municipal Decree 49.335, it is mandatory to present the proof of vaccination against Covid-19 to enter MAM Rio.