Vuadora" exhibition
Exhibition
- Nome: Exposição "Vuadora"
- Opening: 26 March 2022
- Visiting: until 28 May 2022
Local
- Venue: Pivô - Edifício Copan, loja 54 - Avenida Ipiranga, 200
- Online Event: No
Exhibition "Vuadora"
PERIOD 26/03 - 28/05/2022
ENTRANCE FREE
Pivô - Edifício Copan, loja 54 - Avenida Ipiranga, 200
Vuadora will bring together for the first time in a Brazilian institution a large collection of the production of Paulo Nazarethone of the most important artists of his generation. The show, curated by Fernanda Brenner and Diane Lima , will present a combination of iconic works from the last two decades - such as the series Cadernos de África and the collection Produtos do Genocídio - and works specially commissioned for the occasion.
In 2011, Paulo Nazareth left Minas Gerais on a journey of thousands of kilometres to the United States, where he would participate in an exhibition at Art Basel Miami. Instead of "flying" to this one of the most important international contemporary art events, Nazareth chose to travel by foot through much of what is conventionally called Latin America to reach his destination.
Described by the artist as a residence in transit - or perhaps an accidental residence -, the project Notícias de América is the result of a year of intense experiences and exchanges with the people he met along the way, recorded in a broad combination of images, diaries and found objects. In 2021, ten years after the initial milestone of a working methodology that the artist has been adopting ever since, Pivô invites him to revisit his condition as a wanderer in the face of increasing restrictions on mobility imposed by economic, sociopolitical and, more recently, health frontiers in the second decade of the 21st century. By traveling long distances, Nazareth investigates and exposes the social, political and affective structures of the territories he travels through.
His personal journey is also a portrait of the contradictions and deleterious effects of colonialism, racism and global capital in Latin America and Africa, where he was born and where his ancestors came from. On leaving his hometown, Paulo Nazareth took only five items with him: his life, his passport, a hard drive and some personal items. He reports that he lost everything but his life, his wallet and his optimism. Nazareth is a radical nomad, an artist who takes the binomial art-life to its ultimate consequences, always putting his own body and his experiences at the service of a broad discussion on ancestral injustices and, through art, makes perceptible what would then remain hidden.
ABOUT
Paulo Nazareth, 1977, lives and works in Palmital, Minas Gerais
Paulo Nazareth (Governador valadares, 1977) incorporates simple gestures into his work, exploring themes, still incipient in the national and international art circuit, linked to immigration, racism and colonialism. Although his work may manifest itself in video, photography and collected objects, his strongest medium is the cultivation/construction of relationships with individuals who cross his path - especially those placed on the margins due to their legal status or repressed by government authorities.
His major exhibitions include ICA Miami, Miami (2019); Faca Cega, Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte (2018); Old Hope, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2017), Genocide in Americas, Meyer Riegger, Berlin (2015), Journal, Institute for Contemporary Arts, London (2014), Premium Bananas, MASP, Museum of Art São Paulo (2013). Participations in group shows include Beyond the Black Atlantic, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover (2020); 22nd Sydney Biennial, Sydney (2020); Our Selfie, MO Museum, Vilnius (2019); How to talk with birds, trees, fish, shells, snakes, bulls and lions, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin (2018); EXTREME. NOMADS, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main (2018); The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, Prospect.4 Triennial, New Orleans (2017); Field Gate, Remai Modern, Sasktoon (2017); Soft Power. Arte Brasil, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort (2016); Much wider than a line, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe (2016); New Shamans/Novos Xamãs: Brazilian Artists, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2016); Indigenous Voices, Latin American Pavilion 56th Venice Biennale, Venice (2015).
Diane Lima, 1986, lives and works in Salvador, Bahia
Diane Lima is an independent curator, critic and researcher. Master in Communication and Semiotics at PUC-SP, her work consists in experimenting with contemporary curatorial practices from a decolonial perspective. She is currently part of the curatorial team of the 3rd edition of Frestas - Arts Triennial of SESC-SP and since 2018 she signs the curatorship of Valongo Festival Internacional da Imagem. Among her main projects stands out the idealization of the art-education program AfroTranscendence; the curatorship between 2016 and 2017 of the exhibition program Diálogos Ausentes of Itaú Cultural and the participation in 2018 in the Art Critics Group of CCSP. In 2019 she was co-curator of the PlusAfroT Residency and the group exhibition Lost Body - displacement as choreography both projects that took place in Munich-Germany. Juror of several selection and award committees, she is a lecturer at the Specialization in Cultural Management at Itaú Cultural and editorially works in the co-curatorship of two contemporary art publications, one by Act. and another by the French publishing house Brook, both in press.