Vitória Cribb featured in Videobrasil's online exhibition
Vitória Cribb featured in Videobrasil's online exhibition
With an online exhibition, video screening in the city of São Paulo, and analyses that deepen reflections on the artist’s work, the project is curated by Clarissa Diniz
In June, the Associação Cultural Videobrasil launches the Curatorial Cycle, an initiative that promotes digital access, public circulation, and critical engagement with contemporary art from the Global South. The inaugural edition features Brazilian artist Vitória Cribb and is curated by Clarissa Diniz.
Through August 2026, the project will feature a series of free cultural events, including a virtual screening of three video works by Cribb; analyses that expand on the reflections surrounding these works; and a large-scale projection that will cover the the facade of the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo (MAC USP), bringing video art to the city of São Paulo (Brazil).
Vitória Cribb | curated by Clarissa Diniz presents _vigilante00, a trilogy comprising the works VIGILANTE_EXTENDED (2022), BUGs (2023), and echoes of a wet finger: (2024). Drawing on the intersection of technology, nature, and surreal visual settings, the series raises reflections on surveillance and the psychological challenges of a hyperconnected world. “I’m always trying to understand how we, as human beings, relate to technology and its devices, and how that relationship affects us psychologically,” says the artist.
As curator Clarissa Diniz explains: “Vitória’s relationship with the digital realm is inextricably linked to her deep-rooted connection to this world. It is through the lens of being a Black woman that she observes, explores, and critically examines technology.” Thus, the works connect the questions raised by the digital realm to the physical reality of coloniality.
Through August 3, the works will be available for free on Videobrasil’s virtual exhibition platform (videobrasil.online), accompanied by essay and video produced by Clarissa Diniz, which offer an in-depth look at Cribb’s conceptual framework.
“Looking at the works, we recognize ourselves as insects flying around a lamp, and thus realize how fanciful the Enlightenment discourse is, which, even today, cynically persists in exclusively attributing to a handful of humans—and their societies—the supposed ability to illuminate the lives of others”, states the curator. “In these works, the gendering of technology takes center stage through the allegorical figure of the vigilante, a kind of 3.0 version and equally interspecies of Medusa; the avatar whose body is covered in eyes and ears leads viewers through a dystopian adventure that traverses aspects such as the obsession with the gaze of otherness, dysphoria and fascination with error, metamorphosis, and the inversion of perspectives between self and other, prey and predators".
In July, the Curatorial Cycle moves beyond the digital realm and comes to the city of São Paulo with an open-air artistic experience. The work BUGs (2023) will be displayed in a loop on the facade of MAC USP, inviting the public passing through the area to an encounter between art, technology, and the city.
Vitória Cribb | curated by Clarissa Diniz
June 3 - Aug 3 2026
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Organized by: Associação Cultural Videobrasil
Support: MAC USP, On Projeções e Electrica Cinema e Vídeo