Venue
Casa Museu Eva Klabin
Address
Av. Epitácio Pessoa, 2480 – Lagoa, Rio de Janeiro – RJ
Open to the Public
18/09/2022 – 20/11/2022
Opening Hours
Wednesday to Sunday, 2pm to 6pm
ARTISTS
Denilson Baniwa
Gustavo Caboco
CURATORS
Marcio Doctors and Paula Alzugaray
CURATORIAL TEXT
Marcio Doctors
Paula Alzugaray
ASSISTANT CURATOR
Diogo Maia
PRODUCTION
Automatica | Luiza Mello and Julia Rebello
VISUAL PLAYWRIGHT
Gerardo Villaseca
MOUNTING
Eva Klabin House Museum Team
B, Larte Technical Solutions | Cenotechnician
Guilherme Xavier | Scenography
Trombone Mouth | Audio recording and editing
EMBROIDERY
Marília Davascio
Helena Panno
Marina of Assisi
PHOTOGRAPHY
Mario Grisolli
VISUAL DESIGN
Sonia Barreto
TEXT REVIEW
Hassan Ayoub
Rosalina Gouveia
TRANSLATION
Rebecca Atkinson
LIGHTING
Rogério Emerson
COMMUNICATION
A2 Comunicação
EVA KLABIN HOUSE MUSEUM
PRESIDENT EMERITUS
Israel Klabin
PRESIDENT
José Pio Borges
DIRECTORS
Joao Alfredo Dias Lins
Sergio Brilhante de Albuquerque
DIRECTOR EMERITUS
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
BOARD OF CURATORS
Lea Klabin | president
Celso Lafer
Genny Nissenbaum
Hugo Barreto
João Afonso Assis
Katia Mindlin Leite Barbosa
CURATOR
Marcio Doctors
ADMINISTRATOR
Vanderléa Regina de Paiva
MUSEOLOGISTS
Ruth Levy
Diogo Correa Maia
EDUCATION PROGRAM
Carlos Miguez | education coordinator
Gabriel Caires | coordination assistant
Bernardo Novo, Thais Seixas | interns
CURATOR ADVISOR
Juliana Cunha
MANAGEMENT
Samara Soares
Juan Carvalho
MAINTENANCE
Maurício Costa e Silva | Supervisor
John Baptist de Oliveira Souza
Marlon Guimarães
Ronnie Sousa
The exhibition Indigenous Becoming presents the work of the artists Denilson Baniwa and Gustavo Caboco, both of whom deal with the warp and weft of time and space within the body of the Eva Klabin House Museum, located between the forest and the lagoon. The running theme of the occupation is transformation and memory. In an exercise in discovery, the artists visit the forest behind the Museum House, the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon, the Cantagalo Court, and the house’s permanent collection. From the forest, and the stones and living beings found there, the artists extract their own perceptions. The exhibition includes interventions in the environment of the house, along with live transmissions from the forest and sound interventions involving the sounds of the Lagoon. The artists suggest that it is reality that is fragile, not the imagination. Our imagination works in partnership with art and possesses the concreteness of a physical body. It is guided by the language of dreams, which communicates through the impulses of duration and becoming. Art has the capacity to bring us into direct contact with this substrate that is the potency of life.
Venue
MAR – Museu de Arte do Rio
Address
Praça Mauá, 5 – Centro, Rio de Janeiro – RJ
Open to the Public
24/09/2022
CURATOR
Redes da Maré
REALIZATION
Redes da Maré
Sexual Harms + Medical Encounters
WOW Festival Mulheres do Mundo Rio de Janeiro
EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION
Automatica
The ECOAR Festival – Action Against Sexual Violence addressed three main issues: activation of group support networks; the body and sexual violence; and political and pedagogical language. The aim was to situate sexual violence in the context of other structural forms of violence for anyone interested in or affected by the issue. The event also provided a platform for the creation of networks of educators, health professionals, social workers, researchers, activists and artists, especially in the Maré neighborhood and port district of the city of Rio de Janeiro.
The initiative was inspired by and promoted in partnership with the Shameless! Festival—a one-day event in London in 2021, which brought together artists and activists to confront and change attitudes regarding sexual violence, to share ideas, and to imagine a world free of rape. Promoted by Birkbeck London University’s SHAME project and by the WOW – World Women’s Festival, the first edition of ECOAR took place in Rio de Janeiro and was curated and produced by the NGO Maré Networks. The aim of the meeting was to foster debate regarding the global crisis of sexual violence.
Venue
Museu de Imagens do Inconsciente
Address
R. Ramiro Magalhães, 521 – Engenho de Dentro, Rio de Janeiro
Open to the Public
10/07/2022 – 11/06/2023
Opening Hours
Monday to Saturday, 9 am to 4 pm
RESEARCH, DESIGN, CURATORY AND ACHIEVEMENT
Luiz Carlos Mello and Itaú Cultural
EXPOGRAPHIC PROJECT
Claudia Afonso and Vânia Medeiros
LIGHTING PROJECT
Grissel Piguilem
EXHIBITION LIGHTING
Belight
CONSULTANCY
Gladys Schincariol and Priscila Moret
RESEARCHERS
Gabriella Rodrigues, Marcos Florence Martins Santos, Mariana Sgarioni and Solange Santos (outsourced)
ACCESSIBILITY PROJECT
Ariana Chediak, Iguale Communication on Accessibility and Accessible Museums (outsourced)
PRODUCTION
Automatica
SUPPORT
Sociedade Amigos do Museu de Imagens do Inconsciente
PHOTOS
Gabi Carrera
SPECIAL THANKS
Alexandre Magalhães da Silveira
Bernardo Carneiro Horta
Casa das Palmeiras
Christina Gabaglia Penna
Dulce Chaves Pandolfi
Edson Passetti
Edgard de Assis Carvalho
Esther Peter-Müller (HBZ Medizin Careum – Universität Zürich)
Eurípedes Gomes da Cruz Junior
Jörg Kemp (Wissenschaftliche Bibliothek – Psychiatrische Universiätsklinik Zürich)
Marco Lucchesi
Martha Pires
Mauri Domingues
Museu de Imagens do Inconsciente
Nina Galanternick
Pedro Penido Guimarães
Sebastião Barbosa
Thomas Fischer (Foundation of the Works of C. G. Jung, Zurich)
Ursula Reis (HBZ Medizin Careum – Universität Zürich)
Vilma Arêas Yvonne Voegeli (Foundation of the Works of C. G. Jung, Zurich)
Occupation Nise da Silveira provides an in-depth look at the life of Nise da Silveira (1905-1999), one of Brazil’s most highly-acclaimed psychiatrists, whose work attempted to redraw the boundaries between the fields of medicine, philosophy, and art. Silveira proposed treatments that involve not only the spoken word—much undermined by irresponsible practices—but also living feeling, as embodied in core concepts of her work such as emotion-focused coping, catalyzing affect, animal-assisted therapy, and unrestricted respect for human being. This exhibition presents material from the personal archive of the doctor that deals with her family, her arrest, her relationship with the thinker and psychologist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), therapy through expressive activities, diving into the images of the unconscious, the archeology of the psyche – and her unique way of doing science.
Venue
Galpão Bela Maré
Address
Bittencourt Sampaio, 169 – Maré, Rio de Janeiro – RJ
Open to the Public
07/05/2022 – 13/08/2022
Opening Hours
Thursday to Saturday, 10 am to 6 pm
Curators
Clarissa Diniz and Jean Carlos Azuos
Directed by
Favelas Observatory
Elionalva Sousa Silva
Isabela Souza
Raquel Willadino
Project Partner
Automatica
Coordinator
Gilson Plano
Producer
Breno Chagas
Education Program
Coordinator
Anna Luisa Oliveira
Educators
Stephane Marçal
Ivani Figueiredo
Ana V.
Wesley Ribeiro
Caretaker and Cleaning
Rogerio Guedes de Andrade
Communications
Priscila Rodrigues
Coordinator
Romulo Amorim
Spokesperson
Renata Oliveira
Financial Management and Administration
Sarah Horsth
Production
Automatica
Luiza Mello
Marisa S. Mello
Mariana Schincariol Mello
Julia Rebello
Production Assistants
Lucas Alberto
Ayla Gomes
Architects
Grua
Caio Calafate
Pedro Varella
Fabiano Pires
Graphic Design
Renato Cafuzo
Set Production
Larte Soluções técnicas
Elizeu Paiva de Melo
Lighting
BeLigth
Samuel Betts
Photos: Ramon Vellasco
Artists
Agrade Camíz
Agrippina R. Manhattan
Arcasi
Arjan Martins
Claudio Cambra
Douglas Soares
Elilson
Guilhermina Augusti
Irmãs Brasil
Jota Mombaça
Luiz Zerbini
Mulambö
Patfudyda
Paulo César
Pedro Évora
Rafael Bqueer
Raul Mourão
Rdoisó
Yhuri Cruz
With the participation of
Mamba Negra
Allan Weber
The Mixtures exhibition celebrates the first decade of Galpão Bela Maré, by proposing points of reference and forms of materiality that bring different generations and temporalities together to enter into dialogue with the territory, with the space and its unique features. The curatorship involves 19 artists who have helped to put together the history of artistic production in the Favelas da Maré Complex and the show includes many of the greatest achievements of the Center’s creative and educational work over the past ten years. In the words of Jean Carlos Azuos, this meeting brings together the different kinds of corporeality, poetics and geography upon which the ideas and aims of Galpão Bela Maré are based. This is a show made of symbols that presents an overview of a decade of major achievements and experiences in the field of the visual arts in Brazil and that aims to promote the development of broader horizons in matters related to the area’s survival, expansion and population growth.
Venue
Municipal Theater of São Paulo
Address
Praça Ramos de Azevedo, s/n – República, São Paulo – SP
Open to the Public
19/04/2022 – 05/06/2022
Opening Hours
Tuesday to Friday, 11 am to 5 pm
Saturday and Sunday, 10 am to 3 pm
Curators
Jaime Lauriano, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, and Pedro Meira Monteiro
Production
Automatica
Luiza Mello
Mariana Mello
Marisa S. Mello
Production Assistants
Lucas Alberto
Ayla Gomes
Architects
Chalabi Arquitetos
Eduardo Chalabi
Gabriel Ribeiro
Caio Peres Lima
Visual Identity
Oga Mendonça
Graphic Design
Rima Design
Rita Sepulveda de Faria
Pedro Brucz
Copy- Editing
Duda Costa
Translation
John Norman
Audiovisual Content
Baioque Conteúdo
Audiovisual Direction –
Newman Costa
Animation – Kelly Pires
Museum Design
Luciana Yuri Sato
Mariane Tomie Sato
Valéria Sellanes – Libra Cultural
Set Production
Superarte
Alexandre Cruz da Silva
Cícero Bibiano da Silva Junior
Guilherme Jorge Santos Ferreira
Jefferson de Arruda Mateus
Maria do Desterro dos Santos Rodrigues
Set Construction
Cenotech cenografia
Plotting
Omamulti
Video and Audio Equipment
Max áudio luz imagem
Logistics
AL Consultancy
Margaret Balestrini
Transport
Alves Tegam
Insurance
Affinité
Photos: Carlos Ronchi and Jeniffer Estevam
Artists
Adriana Varejão
Agostinho Batista de Freitas
Ailton Krenak
Alfredo Volpi
Ana Elisa Egreja
Anita Malfatti
Antonio Bandeira
Bertone
Carmézia Emiliano
Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro
Cícero Dias
Cinthia Marcelle
Clovis Aparecido dos Santos
Daiara Tukano
Dalton Paula
Daniel Lannes
David Almeida
Denilson Baniwa
Elisabeth Nobiling
Elza Soares
Emiliano Di Cavalcanti
Ernesto De Fiori
Flávio Cerqueira
Flávio de Carvalho
Francisco Rebolo
Frente 3 de Fevereiro
Glauco Rodrigues
Gustavo Caboco
Igor Vidor
Jaime Lauriano
Lidia Lisbôa
Lucia Laguna
Luis Caetano Martins
Marcela Cantuária
Marilia Furman
Mário Zanini
Marlon Amaro
Mauro Restiffe
Mídia Ninja
O Bastardo
Oga Mendonça
Oswaldo Goeldi
Panmela Castro
Pedro França e Darks Miranda
PerifaCon
Raphael Escobar
Rosa Gauditano
Rubem Valentim
Samson Flexor
Sérgio Milliet
Sol Casal
Sonia Gomes
Tarsila do Amaral
Val Souza
Waldemar da Costa
Yhuri Cruz
Counter-memory aims to establish a dialogue between 38 works belonging to the modernist collection of São Paulo Cultural Center and around 90 contemporary works. The project creates a tension out of the silences and nuances present in the Modern Art Week of 1922 that is now regarded as a seminal event. The aim of the exhibition is to produce a re-reading and critical translation of the 1922 Art Week and its cultural and political context. The friction produced between these two exposes a fresh perspective on the silences and ambiguities of the Art Week, revealing a more diverse range of stories and individuals. Counter-memory also aims to disrupt the standard perception that prevails with regard to this event. Works by black, indigenous, trans, and women artists and artists from different generations are introduced to clash and create friction when compared to sculptures and paintings of European inspiration and refined architecture.
Venue
Casa França-Brasil
Address
Visc. de Itaboraí, 78 – Centro, Rio de Janeiro – RJ
Open to the Public
06/04/2022 – 05/06/2022
Opening Hours
Thursday to Saturday, 10 am to 6 pm
Appointments through Sympla [SOLD OUT]
Concept
Crossmedia Group
Project
Automatica Produção Contemporânea
Casa França-Brasil
Production
Automatica Produção Contemporânea
Pink Pineapple
Executive Producers
Adelaide D’Esposito
Waleria Dias
International Coordinators
Tania Tápias
Pink Pineapple
Automatica
Production Coordinators
Automatica Produção Contemporânea
Mariana Schincariol de Mello
Marisa S. Mello
Luiza Mello
Production Assistance
Automatica
Ayla P. Gomes
Administration
Automatica
Geane Lino
Paulino Neto
Local Production
Patuá
Adriana Salomão
Graphic Design and Communications
Dínamo Design
Alexsandro Souza
Marketing
iDueEntretenimento
CulturArtEntretenimento
Coordination of Communications
Approach Comunicação
Education ProgramCoordinator of Education
Pompea Tavares
Assistant Coordinator of Education
Ruth Maciel
Art Educators
Edmilson Gomes (Ed)
Jéssica Sodré
Mariana Vilanova
Marianna Muniz
Pedro Sampaio
Rodrigo Bonicenha
Stephanie Santana
Thainá Nunes Vieira
Tour Guides
Dionisio Brazo
Giovanna Houri
Isadora do Nascimento
Kerolay Leite
Lorendne da Conceição (Loren)
Maria Eduarda Kersting
Melina Ciribelli
Pablo Amorim
Rafael Silva
Rebeca Carvalho
Waleska Cristina
Yuri Guedes
Set Design
Susana Lacevitz | Cenografia.net
Set Design Production
Philippe Midani | Cenografia.net
Architectural Design
Carolina Fragoso
Set Construction
Evandro Pope and team
“Bedroom in Arles”
Attila Neves and team
Production Assistant
José Arthur Carneiro da Costa
Lighting
BeLight
Lighting Project
Samuel Betts
Lighting Technicians
Alexsander Santos
Alvaro Boa Morte
Renato Vieira
Equipment
Maxi Áudio
Photos: Gabriela Carrera
Van Gogh and his Contemporaries: An Immersive Exhibition aims to provide an experience of sensory immersion in the life and work of the Dutch painter, who was one of the greatest artists of the 19th century, guiding visitors through a digital experience involving 360° projections and an original soundtrack. The content of a 60-minute narrative involves the audience in the life and work of the painter, as well as encouraging a viewing of the works of other great names whose works bear some relation to Van Gogh’s, including Cézanne, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Soutine and Modigliani. Visitors are given the opportunity to delve into the history of the artist through explanatory texts and a timeline of the life of Van Gogh. Viewers find themselves immersed in gigantic images, created by multiple projectors through a system that adapts the screens to the exhibition space and provides the sensation of being inside the paintings of one of the world’s most famous and most beloved artists.
Project Title
Make yourself at home: displaced ideas on migration and hos(ti)pitality
Venue
Paço Imperial
Address
Praça XV de Novembro, 48 – Centro, Rio de Janeiro – RJ
Open to the Public
30/03/2022 – 26/06/2022
Opening Hours
Tuesday to Sunday, Midday to 5 pm
Curator
Amanda Abi Khalil
Assistant Curator
Danielle Makhoul
Exhibition Project
Susana Lacevitz
Set Design
Philippe Midani
Set Construction
Evandro Pope and team
Performance, Franzisa Pierwoss
Attila Neves and team
Graphic Design
Bloco Gráfico
Production
Patuá and Automatica
Lighting
Alessandro Boschini
Equipment
On Projeção
Sound, Omar Mismar
Boca do Trombone
Translation
Marise Barros
Copy Editing
Duda Costa
Press Officer
Gabriela Garcia
Social Media
Gianni de Melo and Thais Schio
Educators
Layla Werneck and Melanie Mozzer
Institutional Partners
Amigos do Paço, Open Society Foundations, Instituto Inclusartiz, French Consulate in Rio de Janeiro
Partners – Research Phase
Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), Delfina Foundation
Make Yourself at Home: radical care and hospitality
Kaaysá Art Residency, Goethe-Institut, Brazilian Consulate in Lebanon
Photos: Rafael Adorján
Artists
Ahmad Ghossein
Alexandre Canonico
Arjan Martins
Ayla Hibri
Bouchra Khalili
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Forensic Architecture
Franziska Pierwoss
Gabriela Bettini
Gui Mohallem
Khalil Rabah
Laura Lima
Louise Botkay
Marcos Chaves
No Martins
Omar Mismar
OPAVIVARÁ!
Paulo Nazareth
Rayyane Tabet
Hosted by Paço Imperial, the exhibition “Make yourself at home: radical care and hospitality” gathers together the work of 19 artists, Brazilian and international, all of whom explore the tensions within the guest-host relationship in a context of global displacement. The theme common to all of these artists is that of migration, understood as a form of movement, displacement, flux, occupation or voluntary or forced transfer of people, species and other bodies and animate or inanimate materials, revealing tensions within the concept of hospitality that may be interpreted formally or discursively. The concept of “hostipitality” is used to draw attention to the ambiguous nature of hospitality, which is apparent even from the form of the word. Faced with the foreigner, who is also “a stranger”, this concept contains a contradiction, which may take the form of hostility, or of a compensatory gesture. The exhibition draws attention to the tensions in guest-host relations seen in terms of historical and contemporary forms of migration, which in turn influence more wide-ranging xenophobic practices in relation to any “other”, not just migrants or refugees.
Venue
Marres, Huis voor Hedendaagse Cultuur
Address
Capucijnenstraat 98, 6211RT, Maastricht
Open to the Public
22/03/2022 – 06/06/2022
Opening Hours
Tuesday to Sunday, Midday to 5 pm
Curators
Luiz Carlos Mello and Luiza Mello
Artists
Adelina Gomes
Carlos Pertuis
Fernando Diniz
Exhibition Design
Dínamo Design
Photos: Ger-Jan van Rooij and Rob van Hoorn
In 1946, the Brazilian psychiatrist Nise da Silveira set up the Occupational Therapy Wing of the National Psychiatric Center, in Rio de Janeiro. At a time when psychiatric treatment methods such as electroconvulsive therapy, lobotomy and insulin coma shock were still commonplace, Da Silveira believed that patient could and should be helped by allowing them to express their pain, rather than being put into a stupor. Creative activities proved to be a powerful means both of calming schizophrenics and of accessing their inner worlds. The circular drawings they produced—some complex, others harmoniously structured—intrigued Da Silveira. She sent some samples to the famous psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung. He saw in these mandala drawings confirmation of this theory of the universal language of symbols. Art critics were also impressed by their quality. Over the years, an unusual collection of around 400,000 artworks built up and this is now officially recognized as artistic heritage in Brazil. The Images from the Unconscious exhibition displays a selection of the works from this extraordinary collection. It presents the work of artists who have been working with Nise da Silveira for almost half a century, including neolithic sculptures, paintings of flowers in transformation, solar paintings made with wax crayons, in addition to the mandala drawings that made such a strong impression on Carl Gustav Jung.
PROJECT TITLE
Art Bus
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
30 November 2021 to 24 February 2022
Opening Hours: 9 am to 5 pm
Scheduled Visits: 9 – 11 am and 3 – 5 pm
Admission Free
STOPS
Mauá Square, Center
Madureira Park, R. Soares Caldeira, 115, Madureira
Santos Dumont Square, Gávea
ARTISTS
Jaider Esbell
Pierro Manzoni
Suzana Queiroga
Vik Muniz
Walmor Côrrea
ORGANIZERS
Carioca DNA and Das Lima
CURATION
Luiz Alberto Oliveira and Marcello Dantas
ASSISTANT CURATOR (MARCELLO DANTAS)
Aline Carrer | Magnetoscópio
PRODUCTION
Automatica
Julia Rebello
CURATORS OF EDUCATION
Camila Oliveira
Laura Taves
EDUCATIONAL CONTENT
Camila Oliveira
Gabriela da Fonseca
Juca Fiis
Laura Taves
EDUCATIONAL SUPERVISOR
Iby Montenegro
EDUCATORS
Alice Ferreira Azevedo
Edem Lis
Lais Pinheiro
Liz Martins
Lola Bernardes
Pablo Marcelino
EDUCATION CONSULTANT
Genny Nissenbaum
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Bloco Gráfico
EXHIBITION DESIGN
Susana Lacevitz/Cenografia.net
EXHIBITION ASSEMBLY
Philippe Midani/Cenografia.net
INTERACTION
samambaia.digital
LIGHTING
Samuel Betts / BLight
SOCIAL NETWORK MANAGEMENT
OZ Comunicação
COMMUNICATIONS
Mônica Villela Assessoria de Imprensa
ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATION
Mariza Adnet/Flor de Manacá and Cristina Fournier
O Busão das Artes é uma exposição itinerante que circula pelas praças do Rio de Janeiro para partilhar, com arte e ciência, a diversidade que há em cada ser-pessoa. Entre os pontos previstos de parada estão a Praça Mauá, o Parque Madureira e a Praça Santos Dumont. A exposição foi pensada com um programa educativo que recebe escolas da rede municipal e particular em dois turnos diários, além de público espontâneo.
A proposta do Busão Arte & Ciência é abrir possibilidades de compreensão das dimensões infinitesimais do universo das bactérias a partir de experiências criadas pelos artistas visuais Vik Muniz, Jaider Esbell, Suzana Queiroga e Walmor Corrêa. A exposição é uma maneira de apresentar esses múltiplos seres que constituem, conosco, o que cada um de nós é. O conceito central é, então, o reconhecimento de que pertencemos externamente a um ecossistema, e somos internamente um ecossistema.
A iniciativa apresenta duas vertentes: uma ambiental, que trata das bactérias e de seu papel em nosso ecossistema; e outra científica, que aborda nosso conhecimento sobre o organismo humano. Quem vai ao ‘Busão’ descobre, com uma pitada de humor, que há mais de um quatrilhão de bactérias na Terra, dos quais 100 bilhões habitam o corpo humano, e 99,99% ainda sequer foram descobertas.
PROJECT TITLE
Belo Jardim Artist in Residence — Camila Sposati
CURATORS
Cristiana Tejo and Kiki Mazzucchelli
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
21/09/2021 — 30/11/2021
General Coordination and Production
Automatica
BALLERINA AND MOVEMENTS
Amália Lima
GUEST ARTISTS/ PARTICIPANTS
ALL Souza
Angelik
Déborah Monteiro
Elaine Lima
Gledson Lamartine
Heligeison Feitosa
Jacy Lima
Jurandex
Maéve Oliveira
Marilia Azevedo
Thalyta Monteiro
PRKilla
Rodrigo Valença
Soraya Feitoza
GUESTS AT PUBLIC MEETINGS
Antonio Araújo
Fabiana Dultra Britto
Kaciano Gadelha
Leda Maria Martins
Thiago de Paula Souza
DIGITAL EXHIBITION DESIGN / VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
Rudá Cabral
LOCAL PRODUCTION
David Biriguy
Photography
Jadiel Silva
Video
Heleno Florentino
Audio
Érico Theobaldo
Graphic Design
Studio Kader I Carolina Aboarrage
Estudio Campo
Supported by
Conceição Moura Institute
The Bodies of Phonosophy project was produced between September and November 2021 by the artist Camila Sposati, in collaboration with a group of 15 residents of the city of Belo Jardim. For this project, musical instruments were imagined and produced by the group in the course of weekly group meetings with Sposati and the ballerina Amália Lima, who prepared the participants physically for the project.
Based on the Legislative Theater of Augusto Boal (1996), Bodies of Phonosophy aims to connect the personal body to the social. The focus is on exploring the relation between the pieces created by way of the subject-bodies that create them. This enables investigation of their potential as mediators between different subjectivities and the world. The works produced as part of this project can be accessed by the general public in the form of a digital exhibition put together in collaboration with the artist Rudá Cabral.
Sposati’s Residency also involves a series of public meetings, broadcast via YouTube, featuring invited guests from a range of fields discussing various aspects of the project. The Public Program is designed for those seeking more in-depth knowledge of some of the main issues arising in the course of this Residency.
The project also includes an Education Program, put together by curators Cristiana Tejo and Kiki Mazzucchelli. This program adopts the format of a minicourse providing an Introduction to Contemporary Art, divided into four modules, and is open to the general public free of charge.
PROJECT TITLE
Language Unloosed
LOCATION
Museu da Língua Portuguesa
ADDRESS
Praça da Luz s/n — São Paulo, SP
OPEN TO PUBLIC
31/07/2021 — 03/10/2021
CURATORS
Fabiana Morais e Moacir dos Anjos
PRODUCTION
Automatica
ARTISTAS
Agrippina Manhattan
Alex Cerveny
Alex dos Santos
Ana Lira
Anna Bella Geiger
Anna Maria Maiolino
Antonio Manuel
Aprígio Fonseca
Arthur Bispo do Rosário
Carlos Zílio
Cao Guimarães
Cildo Meireles
Cinthia Marcelle
Coletivo Círculo Forte Brasil
Daniel Santiago
Dalton Paula
Divino Sobral
Denilson Baniwa
Dora Longo Bahia
Dorieu Videla
Elida Tessler
Elson Josevan
Emmanuel Nassar
Evandro Teixeira
Fabio Morais
Fernando Rodrigues dos Santos
Francisco Brennand
Frederico Fonseca
Frente 3 de fevereiro
Gentileza
Gilvan Barreto
Gustavo Speridião
Haroldo Saboia
Hélio Oiticica
Helo Sanvoy
Henfil
Ivan Grilo
Jac Leirner
Jaime Lauriano
Jonathas de Andrade
Josias Benício
José Rufino
Kaoru Higuchi
Lenora de Barros
Leonilson
Lia Chaia
Maracatu Águia Misteriosa
Maracatu Cambidinha de Araçoiaba
Maracatu Carneiro Manso
Maracatu Leão Africano
Marcelo Silveira
Marepe
Maria de Lourdes
Marie Carangi
Mariana Matos
Marilá Dardot
Marta Neves
Mira Schendel
Miró da Muribeca
Moradores do Complexo de Favelas da Maré
Paulo Bruscky
Paulo Freire
Pedro Moraleida
Paulo Nazareth
Radh
Randolpho Lamonier
Reinaldo Figueiredo
Rivane Neuenschwander
Rosângela Rennó
Saquinho de lixo
Sérgio Ruiz
Traplev
Vânia Mignone
Ventura Profana
Victor Arruda
PRODUCTION COORDINATORS
Mariana Schincariol de Mello
Marisa S Mello
Luiza Mello
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Ana Pimenta
Ayla Gomes
ADMINISTRATION
Geane Lino
Paulino Costa Neto
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Dínamo
Alexsandro Souza
EXHIBITION DESIGN PROJECT
T + T – Felipe Tassara e Stella Tennebaum
EXHIBITION LAYOUT
Metro Cenografia
Mauro Coelho
Adão Siqueira
Rubens Mario Zero
LIGHTING PROJECT
Fernanda Carvalho
Paula Carnelós
Luana Alves
Helena Caixeta
LIGHTING
Santa Luz
André Germano Boll
Edson Batista dos Reis
Lucas Renan dos Santos Silva
Gutenberg Ferraz dos Santos
Jefferson Antônio da Silva Costa
INSTALLATION
Gala
Rodolfo Martins
Arâo Nunes
Daniel Renan da Silva
Rhaldexandro Bernardo dos Santos Júnior
Tomas Jefferson Cruz
Wanderlei Blassioli
Marcel Iwai
INSTALLATION OF CINTHIA MARCELLE’S ‘ON THIS WORLD’
Clarice Contijo Lacerda
MUSEUM DESIGN
Heloisa Biancalana
Lilian Magalhães
Priscila Mortet
Bruna Pedrosa
Rosangela Reis Costa
Lucimar Predibom
Valeria Sellenes
Viviane Teixeira
AUDIOVISUAL INSTALLATIONS
Maxi Audio
Augusto Donda
Claudio Lourenço
PHOTOGRAPHY
Ricardo Amado
TRANSPORT
Grupo Alke
Thiago Aquino
Jevesson de Souza
William Aderno
Renan Soares
Marcos Allan
Rafael Santanna
Cicero Leandro
Mario Cesar
Willian Goncalves
Gabriel Fernandes
Fernando Araujo
Robson Antonio
Roberto de Jesus
Jose Gabriel
Aldair Thomaz
Luis Alberto
Benedito Jose
Francinaldo Silva
INSURANCE
Liberty
SIGNAGE
Watervision
EDITING
Duda Costa
TRANSLATION
Paul Webb
Curated by Fabiana Moraes and Moacir dos Anjos, the Língua Solta [Language Unloosed] exhibition shows us the diverse range of uses to which the Portuguese language is put in art and everyday life. The show accomplishes this by presenting a variety of artifacts whose meaning is firmly grounded in the use of words as objects of popular or contemporary art. The exhibition was originally staged to mark the re-opening of the Museum of the Portuguese Language, which had been closed since 2015, when it was damaged by fire.
In all, 180 works by contemporary artists and so-called “popular artists” are included. The miscellaneous approach adopted by the curators, which sets the tone for the whole exhibition, makes connections between art and politics, life in society, day-to-day behavior patterns, and forms of protest, religion, and survival. The guiding thread which links all of these factors is the Portuguese language.
“The tongue/language is loosened because it disrupts the consensuses that form the basis for the predominant social relations, in both private and public spheres. When incorporated into various different images and objects, this suggests other possible interpretations of the world and thus weaves together a political web all of its own”, as Moacir dos Anjos puts it. The project regards language as a social agent that not only reflects but also reorganizes forms of life. In an intuitive and playful fashion, the show includes some of the creative strategies that, by organizing a highly diverse range of images and objects, both suggest and help unleash the power that language possesses to provide emancipation. “We see language as a site of power struggles that and this reflects various issues we face in Brazil – race, class, gender and geography”, Fabiana Moraes remarks.