A threaded archipelago from the suit of memory: memorial and place | Meeting 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.
public programs
Ashes of an emptied body: image, race and form | Meeting 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 | Meeting 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
The Last Harvest | Performances Imagined Communities | 21st Biennial
Referring to photographs taken by Marc Ferrez in 1882, the action alludes to the tensions between the enslaved, desperate for freedom, and the enslaver, who endeavors to withhold it.
performances
Pan-African Contemporary Art Exhibition (2005)
Documentary directed by Edu Abad for MOPAAC - Pan-African Contemporary Art Exhibition, which took place at MAM in Bahia in 2005, curated by Solange Farkas.
making of & recordings
Diego Matos on "Into thin air into the ground" (2013), by Haig Aivazian
The researcher and independent curator analyzes the video by Haig Aivazian
commented collection
Rosely Nakagawa Matuck on "Myxomatosis" (2008), by Solon Ribeiro
The curator analyzes the video by Solon Ribeiro
commented collection