Associação Cultural Videobrasil

In September, in addition to the Isaac Julien show, our On Tour travelling show will feature at a new destination, presenting highlights of art production from the world’s geopolitical South shown in our latest Southern Panoramas show. Held in partnership with the Cultural Center of Spain in Guatemala City, the show will open next Monday with the winning works from the 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil.

The artwork brings up different issues which are tackled by means of myriad artistic operations. The curator Solange Farkas explains how the themes came to be: “When the group of curators in charge of selection reviewed the artwork in depth, even though there was no preset theme to that edition, we realized that some themes emerged which created cohesive groups out of the works. Thus, we ended up charting out four thematic sections: Cartographies of affection, featuring works that search for possibilities of representation of subjective aspects; Nature and culture, featuring works which create new developments to the landscape genre; Seeing machines, comprising optical devices which propose new views; and Political landscapes, which brings dilemmas from the social sphere into the visual arts.”

The desire to chart out affections and issues which pertain to the field of subjectivity is recurrent in works such as Exploring, by Moran Shavit, or Jan Villa, by Natasha Mendonca; in BRAVO-RADIO-ATLAS-VIRUS-OPERA, Carla Zaccagnini looks into the desire and the frustration involved in an attempt at acting. The poetic potency of images captured using rudimentary cameras is revealed in Em um lugar qualquer – Outeiro, by Dirceu Maués. Cinema, the subject of Claudia Joskowicz’s research (Round and Round and Consumed by Fire), is paid tribute by Akram Zaatari in Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright. Akin to Gabriel Mascaro in As aventuras de Paulo Bruscky, Zaatari operates by reversing expectations regarding the possibilities of contemporary virtual worlds. In his Tapetes installation, Adriano Costa makes a formal provocation which questions the very statute of art. Still, all of these pieces somehow tackle fundamentally social or political issues – such as the Tiananmen Square Massacre’s erasure from the memory of Chinese people, the theme of Unforgettable Memory, by Liu Wei.

These diverse perspectives and procedures give an overview of the paths through which contemporary art from the geopolitical South of the world enter the global scene, and “taking said art to new contexts is a means for broadening the contemporary art audience, and expanding its reflection-inducing possibilities,” says the curator.

The show will also include a schedule of meetings.

Service

2012-2013 Videobrasil on Tour in Guatemala
Opening on September 3, 2012 at 8:00 pm
From September 4 to October 12

at Cine Lux | Centro Cultural de Espanã en Guatemala

Vía 5, 1-23 Zona 4, 4º Norte | 01004, Guatemala City

Mondays to Fridays from 9:30 am to 1:00 pm and from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Saturday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm

+(502) 2384.9066 / 67 / 70

Lectures and meetings

September 21, Friday, 6:30 pm | Centro Cultural Universitário

Fotografia, Imagem e Poder (Photography, Image and Power)

Meeting with the artist Dirceu Maués

September 25, Tuesday, 10:00 am | Casa de Cervantes

Portfolio reviewing with Dirceu Maués and Juan Antonio Molina, critic and curator

Check out the On Tour website.