Sergio e Simone, by Virgínia de Medeiros | video, 2010
Virgínia de Medeiros is in New York for the Videobrasil Residency Program 2014
Virgínia de Medeiros kicks off her season of the Videobrasil Artist Residency 2014 Program. The artist is based in São Paulo, Brazil, and won the Residency ICCo Prize, at Residency Unlimited, Nova York at the 18th edition of the Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil for her video installation Sergio e Simone. In second July, she started developing her creative process at Residency Unlimited,
in New York, USA, where she will also feature in an lecture.
Apart from Virgínia, eight other artists have won two-month residencies at Videobrasil Residency Network partner organizations around the world. Ayrson Heráclito and Gabriel Mascaro (Brazil), Bakary Diallo (Mali), Basir Mahmood (Pakistan), Laura Huertas Millan (Colombia), LucFosther Diop (Cameroon), Ali Cherri (Lebanon) 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.