Samuel Fosso | Meetings with artists | 22nd Biennial
Through photography and performance, Samuel Fosso gives autofiction and self-portraiture dimensions that are both political and historical, fictional and intimate.
public programs
On the banks of the Cuiabá River: land, rights and Indigenous technologies | Meetings with artists | 22nd Biennial
A conversation about the different technologies that allow us to challenge traditional notions of what indigenous art is and rethink the notions of memory and heritage in the Latin American context.
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Stagnant water bears poison: national history and personal legacy | Meetings with artists | 22nd Biennial
A conversation between Janaina Wagner, Sofia Borges and TANG Han, mediated by Siddharta Perez, on the historical legacy as a factor in the construction of identity and social action.
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Of the phantasmatic country of oblivion: objects, archives, collections | Meetings withs artists | 22nd Biennial
A conversation with Leila Danziger, Eduardo Montelli and Zé Carlos Garcia, mediated by Paula Nascimento, discusses archiving strategies, the role of objects, and the ethics and emotions involved in collecting.
public programs
A threaded archipelago from the suit of memory: memorial and place | Meetings with artists | 22nd Biennial
The impact of forced displacement, banishment, exile and war on the memory of individuals and peoples, on cultural representation and on the historical understanding for different generations.
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Ashes of an emptied body: image, race and form | Meetings with artists | 22nd Biennial
The artists Maksaens Denis, Seba Calfuqueo and Vitória Cribb discuss how images help to sustain prejudices and corroborate imaginaries of fear and desire.
public programs
The bed that lodges the shipwrecked: Building institutions in the Global South | Meetings with artists | 22nd Biennial
Artists Mella Jaarsma and Tirzo Martha discuss strategies for building art institutions in marginalized countries.
public programs
Teresa Margolles | 21st Biennial
The artist talks about her work Tela Bordada, exhibited in the 21st Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil
testimonies
No le digas a mi mano derecha lo que hace la izquierda | Performances Imagined Communities | 21st Biennial
The performance consists of the recorded erasure of a mural featuring elements of Afro-descendant culture drawn by the artist on a large blackboard.
performances
Tela bordada | Performances Imagined Communities | 21st Biennial
A group of women use colored thread to embroider a piece of cloth of the kind used in morgues. As they work, the women tell their own personal stories.
performances