Pipe Dreams (video installation, 2012. Courtesy from Videobrasil and the artist). With this piece Ali Cherri won the Resartis Residency Prize at the A-I-R Laboratory, during the 18th edition of the Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil
Ali Cherri is in Poland for the Videobrasil Residency Program 2014
Ali Cherri kicks off the 2014 season of the Videobrasil Artist Residency Program. The artist is based in Beirut, Lebanon, and won the Res Artis Residency Prize at the 18th edition of the Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil for his video installation Pipe Dreams. In April 10th , he started developing his creative process at the A-I-R Laboratory (Artists In Residency Laboratory), in Warsaw, Poland, where he will also feature in an exhibition and be paid a visit by Videobrasil curator and director general Solange Farkas, and programming.
Apart from Cherri, eight other artists have won two-month residencies at Videobrasil Residency Network partner organizations around the world. Ayrson Heráclito, Gabriel Mascaro and Virgínia de Medeiros (Brazil), Bakary Diallo (Mali), Basir Mahmood (Pakistan), Laura Huertas Millan (Colombia), LucFosther Diop (Cameroon) and Nurit Sharett (Israel) will engage in experiences of exchange and displacement at 12 facilities in five different countries (Brazil, USA, China, Poland, Mexico and Senegal). Click here for additional information on the artists, their works and the organizations involved.
Solange Farkas believes what sets the Festival’s Residency Prize apart is the participation and involvement of Network partner organizations “both in the event itself – as participants in the Public Programs’ meetings and debates – and in the artist selection process,” explains the Videobrasil director and curator. After the international award jury announces the winners, the Residency Network partners convene and decide, collectively and based on the profiles of each of the artists, which are best suited to each of the programs.
Thus, in this latest edition, the Brazilian artist Ayrson Heráclito, whose poetics are connected with Afro-Brazilian rituals and religiosity, is undertaking his residency at the Raw Material Company, in Dakar, Senegal. Africa’s Bakary Dialo, whose work addresses both the political conflicts in Mali, and elements pertaining to mysticism and “magical nature,” will have his residency at the Sacatar Institute, in Bahia, which is Heráclito’s native state.