Fourteen pieces – ten prize winners and four honorable mentions – reveal themes and procedures from Southern art. The 18th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil awarded the Grand Prize to Luiz de Abreu’s O Samba do Crioulo Doido performance, as well as nine artist residency prizes to works selected by the jury. Visit our partners page to learn more about the institutions and companies that support the 18th Festival.
Check below the winning works and honorable mentions:
- Grand Prize: O Samba do Crioulo Doido, Luiz de Abreu
- Ali Cherri, Pipe Dreams (Res Artis residency prize, at A-I-R Laboratory, Poland)
- Ayrson Heráclito, Funfun (Sesc_Videobrasil residency prize, at Raw Material Company, Senegal)
- Bakary Diallo, Tomo (Sesc_Videobrasil residency prize, at Instituto Sacatar, Brazil)
- Basir Mahmood, My Father (Sesc_Videobrasil residency prize, at Instituto Sacatar, Brazil)
- Gabriel Mascaro, Doméstica (Wexner Center for the Arts residency prize, USA)
- Laura Huertas Millan, Journey to a Land Otherwise Known (Res Artis residency prize, at Arquetopia, Mexico)
- LucFosther Diop, We Are One (FAAP residency prize)
- Nurit Sharett, The Sun Glows Over the Mountains (China Art Foundation residency prize, at Red Gate Gallery, China)
- Virgínia de Medeiros, Sergio e Simone (ICCo residency prize, at Residency Unlimited, USA)
- Caetano Dias, Rabeca (honorable mention)
- Enrique Ramírez, Brisas (honorable mention)
- Marcellvs L., 9493 (honorable mention)
- Sherman Ong, Motherland (honorable mention)