36th Panorama of Brazilian Art: Sertão

Photographer and visual artist who lives and works in Recife, Brazil. Her work focuses on power relations and their implications for communication dynamics. She specializes in Cultural Theory and Criticism. She has developed independent research, curation, and educational projects linked to visual projects. She has participated in more than seven collectives over the course of two decades. She is the coordinator of the educational projects Cidades Visuais, EntreFrestas, and Circuitos Possíveis. She received the Funarte Contemporary Art Award 2015 for the exhibition Não-Dito.

Choreographic and image artist, researcher of urban dances, contemporary dancer and pedagogue graduated from the School of Dance of the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. Through the EX.ERCE 2009/10 training, she studies dance and image at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier, France, under the direction of Mathilde Monnier.

Ana Vaz is a filmmaker whose films and their multiple developments in the fields of installation, performed readings and publications seek to deepen the relationships between perception and language, the self and the other, myth and document, based on a cosmology of perspectives. Combining found or manufactured materials, her films combine ethnography and analysis, exploring zones of friction or fiction based on encounters, sensory experiences and sensitive confrontations. Recent exhibitions of her work include the TATE Modern, Palais de Tokyo, TABAKALERA, Fundació Antoni Tàpies. In 2015, she was awarded the Kazuko Trust Award by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in recognition of innovation in her cinematographic work.

The artist investigates the contradictions of Brazil's cultural construction as an act of resistance and reflection on the idea of ​​a national identity. He puts tension in the colonial past through contemporary times by working with icons, sometimes from the rural imagination, critically reflecting on historical situations that link the local to the global and the dated familiar to the immemorial collective symbolism, in a dialogue that reconfigures and presents narratives related to a racial and political identity memory. These iconic historical sets are explored through sculpture, painting, installations and performance. In his works, he brings an affective memory that proposes an intimate reflection on the body (his mixed-race, black, black body).

Elvis Ferreira de Sá is a Fulni-ô Indian from the city of Águas Belas, in the Southern Agreste region of Pernambuco, and the coordinator of the Fulni-ô Film Collective. He holds a degree in Indigenous Intercultural Licentiate from UFPE, a master's degree in Literature and Linguistics from UFAL, and has been a teacher at Fulni-ô schools for over nine years. Together with other teachers and students from the indigenous school system, he was one of the founders of the Fulni-ô Film Collective, which has produced several short films in the village. His directorial debut was Yoonahle – A Palavra dos Fulni-ô, released in 2013 as part of the Vídeo nas Aldeias project. In his fourth film, Fea Tothdoa – Terra Seca, Elvis delved into the relationship between the Fulni-ô Indians and the Brazilian semiarid region, where they are able to extract riches from the wild vegetation of the caatinga.

He studied Fine Arts at UFSM with Suzana Gruber in the 90s. He attended the Torreão Art School in the early 2000s. In 2005 he lived in Rio de Janeiro, where he discovered Yoga. In 2006 he moved to Pernambuco. He lived as Grupo Laranjas, A Casa Como Convém and today he shares an apartment in downtown Recife with three other artists of different natures, but all loving, creative and attentive. He participated in many important institutional and independent art exhibitions in Brazil between 2005 and 2019, including the 32nd São Paulo Biennial (2016). He did artistic residencies in Buenos Aires, Guangzhou, London, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Acre. In April 2019 he began training in agroecology at Serta, Alternative Technology Service, in Glória do Goitá - PE. Dalton Paula

Dalton Paula lives and works in Goiânia, Goiás. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts and discusses the silenced body in urban environments. His works propose a reflection on fear, ephemerality, individualism and otherness. He also works with pictorialism contaminated by different languages ​​through his body in the field of intimacy. In 2018, he was one of the artists selected for the “Songs for Sabotage” Triennial at the New Museum in New York, USA, where he also completed an artistic residency at AnnexB for two months. He was also part of the 11th Mercosul Visual Arts Biennial – “The Atlantic Triangle”, in Porto Alegre, RS; and has works in the exhibition “Afro-Atlantic Histories”, at MASP and Instituto Tomie Ohtake.

Artist Daniel Albuquerque uses a variety of media to create three-dimensional works that reference the human body and its relationships with rituals of pleasure and intimacy. His interests in practice include relationships with psychoanalysis, mythology, and autobiography through multiple textures, shapes, colors, materials, and processes. Daniel Albuquerque began his artistic career in 2012. That year, he began his postgraduate studies in Art and Philosophy at PUC-Rio and took courses at EAV Parque Lage. His recent exhibitions include the solo shows “Batom”, Cavalo, Rio de Janeiro (2018); “Oral”, BFA, São Paulo (2017). Highlights include the group shows in which he participated: “The House where you live forever”, curated by Marina Coelho, Garage Rotterdam, Netherlands (2019); “Perdona que no te crea”, curated by Victor Gorgulho, Carpintaria, Rio de Janeiro (2019); “The Third Hand”, curated by Erika Verzutti, Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo; “Ballast in the field”, curated by Beatriz Lemos, SESC Consolação, São Paulo (2016).

Desali holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Guignard School, State University of Minas Gerais (2009). He has held the following solo exhibitions: “Alicerce”, Sesiminas Art Gallery, Belo Horizonte (2013); “Vulgo. Remember the large table in the dining room”, Mari'Stella Tristão Gallery at the Palace of Arts, ARTEMINAS program and has also participated in group shows such as: “Mostra Curtocircuito”, SESC Palladium, Belo Horizonte (2016) and SIMBIO, Palace of Arts, Belo Horizonte (2016). “Blood of the neighborhood” in conjunction with Affonso Uchoa, was part of the second exhibition program of the CCSP 2017 in São Paulo (2017). He was selected for the 32nd Pará Art Salon (2013) and for the residencies “Mobile Device”, JA.CA – Art and Technology Center, Nova Lima – MG (2015) and AGORA – International Art Action, Bela Crkva – Serbia (2016). Some of his works were acquired by the São Paulo Cultural Center (CCSP), for the “Art of the City” collection. Nominated for the PIPA award in 2017 and 2018.

Gabi Bresola is an artist. Editor at Miríade edições, collaborator on the par(ent)esis platform, producer at Ombu produções, co-coordinator of Flamboiã – an artist publications fair and a master's student in Visual Arts at PPGAV\UDESC, where she researches publications as a space and publishing as an artistic practice. Mariana Berta works as an artist, art teacher, researcher, peasant and activist. She was born in 1990 in the city of Peritiba and was raised in the countryside of the city of Concórdia, SC. ​​She has lived on the island of Florianópolis for ten years, where she studied a degree in Visual Arts at Udesc and is currently studying for a master's degree in Contemporary Artistic Processes at the same institution. She lived in Bolivia in 2013 and in Portugal in 2015, where she studied and worked. She imposes her peasant, community and matriarchal origins in academic discussions and practices, and squeezes the paradigms of contemporary art with her hand in partnership with her mother, Tânia Maria Felski, a vanguard of the land, a school of art. She is active in militancy for the Movement of Peasant Women of SC, where she finds strength in the ability to invent and savor her vague and unfashionable difference.

In her search for a non-linear artistic expression, Gê Viana delves into research on the performative body and abject bodies (marginalized and invisible bodies). Creating paths in art is based on the idea of ​​denunciation using aesthetic categories. The works are developed in the act of photographing that takes on various aspects with photomontage, generating posters in urban/rural intervention experiments. She thinks about the legacy left by photographers who denounced the daily life of large cities, ghettos and traditional peoples through clicks. She brings discourses on the perspective of graffiti in the civic act of life, political and artistic. She has a degree in Visual Arts from the Federal University of Maranhão.

Gervane de Paula is Brazilian and was born in Cuiabá, the capital of the state of Mato Grosso, located in the central-western region of the country, precisely in the geodesic center of South America, where he has lived and worked since 1977. He was part of the “Generation 80”, a Brazilian artistic movement of great relevance in the visual arts, and since then he has participated in individual and collective exhibitions in museums in Brazil and abroad. His work is based on mass, popular and religious culture, and deals with social realism, talking about the various forms of urban violence, starting from the local scenario to portray the world in which he lives. His production is situated between painting, drawing, object and installation, using various supports and materials.

Lise Lobato was born in Belém, Pará. She has a degree in Art Education from the University of the Amazon and is a specialist in Semiotics and Visual Arts from the Federal University of Pará. Her works include drawings, paintings, objects, and installations. Her solo exhibitions include: “Quarta Ocupação” (2001), “O Silêncio do Branco” (2002), “Meu Quintal é do Mundo” (My Backyard is the World’s Own) (2006), and “Nás Águas do Arari” (Visual Arts Award from the Bank of the Amazon, 2008). She participated in the 11th, 14th, and 15th International Exhibition of Visual Arts in Vendas Novas/Portugal (2005 and 2008). In Portugal, she also participated in the 2007st International Salon of Visual Arts in São João da Madeira (2003) and the 2006th International Biennial of Visual Arts in Vila Nova de Cerveira (2001). In São Paulo, she participated in the exhibition “Radical Maneuvers” CCBB/SP (2002), curated by Paulo Herkenhoff and Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda. She participated in exhibitions such as “Arte Pará” (2005, 2009, 2004 and XNUMX). She was awarded an award at the III Mato Grosso Contemporary Art Biennial (XNUMX). Her works are in the collections of museums and cultural spaces in the states of Pará, Paraíba, Rio de Janeiro and Portugal.

She is an artist with a degree in visual arts and image technology from the University of the Amazon, Belém, and a master's degree in arts from the Federal University of Pará. She is a PhD candidate in Visual Poetics in the Graduate Program in Visual Arts at USP. She works with performance, often focused on photography and video, objects and websites. With her research focused on the body and performative actions, the artist addresses political, social and anthropological issues related to the impact of development in the Amazon region. The integration of the body into the landscape and surroundings is a determining and recurring element in her works. Her works have been exhibited at the Banco do Nordeste Cultural Center, Fortaleza (2014); at Arte Pará, Museu de Arte do Estado do Pará, Belém (2014), where she was an award-winning artist; and at the Museu de Arte do Rio de Janeiro (2013). His works are part of the collections of the Rio Art Museum, the Rio Grande do Sul Museum of Contemporary Art, the Federal University of Pará Museum, the Romulo Maiorana Foundation, the Pipa Institute and the VideoBrasil Cultural Association.

Mabe Bethônico is an artist and researcher who works with archives and institutions, dealing with the boundaries between documentation and construction, highlighting how information and history can be constructed and reworked continuously. From this perspective, she dedicates herself largely to issues related to mining in Minas Gerais. She participated in the 27th and 28th São Paulo Biennials and in exhibitions at MAM and MIS SP, Museu da Pampulha, at the Centre de la Photographie, Geneva, Museo de Antioquia – Medellin, Kunstverein Muenchen – Munique, Nothingham Contemporary, among others. She is a member of the international collective of artists and theorists World of Matter and conducts research in France, with the École Supérieure d'Art Annecy Alpes, ESAAA. Bethônico holds a master's degree and a doctorate in visual arts from the Royal College of Art, London, and carried out postdoctoral research at the Museum of Ethnography in Geneva, on the project One traveler after another, a guide or two about the Caatinga, on the archives of the Swiss geologist Edgar Aubert de la Rüe.

He is a visual artist and poet. He graduated in Visual Arts from the Guignard School (UEMG) and researches the contribution of black poetry to decoloniality, in the master's degree in Literary Theory (UFPE). He exercises the tension between the official version of history and polyphonic counter-narratives. He investigates the delirium of modernity, representation, imaginary, colonial wound and subjectivity. He works in hybrid languages, is interested in emotion as a system of enjoyment of the world and is dedicated to the fusion between the fields of image and word.

Graduated in Physical Education from the Catholic University of Salvador in 1987. He attended Drawing, Sculpture and Engraving courses at the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage, in Rio de Janeiro, and at the Workshop of the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia. He holds a degree in Drawing and Visual Arts from the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Bahia. His works are part of the collections of the ACBEU Gallery – Instituto Cultural Brasil Estados Unidos, the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia and the Instituto Cultural Brasil-Alemanha.

Maxwell Alexandre graduated in Design from PUC-Rio in 2016, and in 2009, he participated in the Photography Course to record the works of the Growth Acceleration Program in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. The artist's urban poetics involve the construction of narratives and scenes structured from his daily experiences in the city and in Rocinha, where he lives and works. On different supports, such as pool tarps, wooden doors and iron frames, anonymous characters emerge in recurring situations in the favela. In 2019, he held his first international solo exhibition at the Musée d'art contemporain in Lyon, France. In 2018, he participated in an artistic residency at the Delfina Foundation, London, as well as in the group exhibitions “Crônicas urgentes” at the Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel gallery, São Paulo, and “Histórias Afro-Atlânticas” at MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo. In 2018, he held the solo exhibition “The Baptism of Maxwell Alexandre” and participated in the group show “Abre Alas 14”, both at the A Gentil Carioca gallery, Rio de Janeiro. His work is part of the collections of important collections, such as Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil, MASP – São Paulo Museum of Art and MAR – Rio Museum of Art, Rio de Janeiro.

His work spans different fields of knowledge. He is interested in encyclopedic subjects and content. Among them: the formation of rocks, the origins of volcanoes and mountains, the fall of meteorites, the strange shapes of corals, shells and trees, the possible existence of unidentified flying objects, the transformative operations of alchemy and magic, the visual effects of opium and its derivatives, the images that populate nightmares and science fiction films. He holds a PhD in Visual Arts from UFRGS. He is a professor at CAp-UFRGS. Some of his main projects and exhibitions include: “Fluxorama”, São Paulo Cultural Center [2010], “If the climate is favorable”, 9th Mercosul Biennial [2013], “The negative hand”, Parque Lage [2015], “The extended hand”, Sé Galeria [2016], “Unanimous Night Vol II”, Contemporary Art Center of Vilnius [2017], “RS XXI – Rio Grande do Sul Experimental”, Santander Cultural [2018], “From tradition to experimentation”, Iberê Camargo Foundation [2019]. He is the author of the books Expansive strategies of art: publications by artists and their moving spaces and As soon as it is published, I will send it to you.

Paul Setúbal holds a PhD and a master’s degree in Visual Arts and Culture, and a degree in Visual Arts from UFG. His research is developed through multiple languages, addressing the issues of the body in contemporary society, its use, control, and relations of abuse and power. His own body is explored as a geographic support and territory of conflict. In 2018, he presented the solo show “Corpo Fechado” at C Galeria, RJ, the performance “Compensação por Excesso” during SP-Arte, participated in the exhibition “Arte Democracia Utopia: Quem não luta tá morto!” at MAR, “Demonstração por Absurdo” at Instituto Tomie Othake, was a resident at Pivô Arte Pesquisa and was one of the artists awarded the FOCO Prize during ArtRio. In 2017, he participated in the exhibitions “As Bandeiras da Revolução”, Fundaj, PE, “13° Verbo”, Galeria Vermelho, SP and “Osso” Instituto Tomie Ohtake. In 2016, she participated in the exhibition “The Color of Brazil” at the Rio Art Museum and the solo show “Dano e Excesso” at the Andrea Rehder Gallery. In 2015, she presented the solo show “Aviso de Incêndio” at the Elefante Cultural Center and participated in the show “Terra Comunal: Marina Abramović + MAI” at Sesc Pompéia. She is a member of the EmpreZa performance group.

Yandê is our radio station, made for “you” and “all of us”. As the saying goes, everything we do together is better – this is the concept that we at Grupo de Comunicação Yandê work with. Rádio Yandê is educational and cultural. Our goal is to spread indigenous culture through traditional and contemporary perspectives, but adding the speed and reach of technology and the internet. Our need to encourage new “indigenous correspondents” in Brazil allows us to build a much stronger collaborative communication, when compared to traditional radio and TV media. We are certain that media convergence is possible, even in the most remote indigenous villages and communities, and that this is an important way to value and maintain culture. Our programming schedule includes informative and educational programs that bring to the public a little of the indigenous reality of Brazil, dispelling old stereotypes and prejudices caused by the lack of specialized information in non-indigenous media outlets. Rádio Yandê is a Free Media Point.

Between the industrial outskirts of his hometown, Contagem, and the major urban centers, Randolpho Lamonier develops his visual research using various media and processes, in an accumulation of signs and gestures that reflect on the urgency of constructing individual and collective identities. In the intersections between private life and matters of public order, an articulation between micro and macro politics is defined, a constant state of reflection and insurgency that makes present in the smallest of gestures a critical stance on the state of normality.

He graduated in visual arts from the Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo and is currently pursuing a postgraduate degree in Brazilian Studies: society, education and culture from the Fundação Escola de Sociologia e Política. Since 2009, he has worked with non-formal education in contexts of social vulnerability or political disputes, such as Fundação CASA, Cracolândia and Albergues. His work in these contexts serves as research and often as an activation for the work he develops. Escobar questions the hegemonic narratives that create the erasure and/or stigmatization of populations. His work uses objects, actions and everyday situations from urban life to discuss these relationships. He has participated in exhibitions such as “Quem não luta tá morto – arte democracia utopia” (Those who don’t fight are dead – art democracy utopia), Museu de Arte do Rio; “São Paulo não é uma cidade, invenções do centro” (São Paulo is not a city, inventions of the center), SESC 24 de Maio; “Oso: Exhibition-appeal to the broad right of defense of Rafael Braga”, Instituto Tomie Ohtake; and “Metrópole: Experiência Paulistana” (Metropolis: Paulistana Experience), Estação Pinacoteca.

Visual Artist, Researcher and Assistant Professor at the Regional University of Cariri. Master in Visual Languages, EBA/UFRJ, 2014. Bachelor in Drawing, EBA/UFMG, 2011. Studied Photography at ENSAV La Cambre, Brussels, 2007/08. Studied Anthropology, UFMG, 2003/06. In 2018, she participated in the exhibition “With the air too heavy to breathe”, Galeria Athena, Rio de Janeiro. In 2017, she participated in the 23rd Salão Anapolino, Goiás and in the exhibition “Fossilis”, at the Museum of Paleontology, Santana do Cariri, Ceará. He was a resident at RAT Puerto Turin, in Mexico City, and held the solo exhibition “Saudade e o que é possível fazer com as mãos” (Saudade and what is possible to do with hands) at Galeria Athena, Rio de Janeiro, in 2016. In 2015, he held the solo exhibition “Antes da última queima” (Before the Last Burning) at Galeria do IBEU, as a prize for the Novíssimos 2014 exhibition, and participated in the exhibition “Permanências e Destruições” (Permanences and Destructions) and the Abre Alas 11 exhibition, all in Rio de Janeiro. He was part of the exhibitions Arte Pará 2013 and 2012, and Rumos Itaú Cultural 2011/13. In 2013, he was a resident of the Kamov and Queer Zagreb seasons in Croatia, where he presented the solo exhibition “Where the houses live”.

Master in Art Theory and Criticism from the Santa Marcelina College (supervised by Lisette Lagnado) and a Bachelor in Visual Arts from Faap. In recent years, he has held solo exhibitions at the Millan Gallery, São Paulo, SP (2016), Pivô, São Paulo, SP (2014), Effearte Gallery, Milan, Italy (2012), São Paulo Cultural Center, SP (2011), Leme Gallery, São Paulo, SP (2011 and 2009), Joaquim Nabuco Foundation, Recife, PE (2010) and Paço das Artes, São Paulo, SP (2009).

Rosa Luz is 23 years old, was born in Gama, Federal District, and currently lives in São Paulo. She is a visual artist, having participated in solo and group exhibitions in Brazil and the United Kingdom at venues such as the Museu da República, Museu da Diversidade Sexual, Galeria Transarte, ONU BR, Paço das Artes, SPArte, NN Contemporary, etc. In 2017, she released her first EP, Rosa Maria Codinome Rosa Luz, which was funded by crowdfunding. She has also participated in TEDxBrasília, SofarSounds Latin America, Festival Latinidades, Favela Sounds, among other music festivals throughout Brazil. She also produces content for the internet about rap, visual arts, and transsexuality, posting weekly content on the Rosa Luz channel. Her music can be found on all digital platforms.

Born in 1996 in Isaías Coelho, Piauí, Santídio Pereira lives and works in São Paulo. He studied Art History with critic and curator Rodrigo Naves, and has a degree in Visual Arts from Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, in São Paulo.

Santídio Pereira's trajectory has been permeated by experimentation and constant study of artistic precepts, driving a desire to create and innovate pre-established standards, both in the formal and conceptual aspects of artistic languages. His work has been exhibited in Brazilian institutions such as Fundação Iberê Camargo (Porto Alegre), Centro Cultural São Paulo, Paço das Artes, MuBE – Brazilian Museum of Sculpture and Ecology, and MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (all in São Paulo ) in exhibitions at international spaces and institutions such as Galería Xippas (Punta del Este, Uruguay), b[x] Gallery (New York, USA), Bortolami Gallery (New York, USA), Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain – Triennale di Milano (Milan, Italy), Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain (Paris, France), Power Station of Art (Shanghai, China), among others. His work is included in important collections, such as Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (Brazil), Coleção Cisneros (USA), Acervo Sesc de Artes (Brazil), Museu de Arte do Rio – MAR (Brazil) and Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain (France). Santídio was also awarded the Piza Prize (2021, Paris, France), in addition to having participated in the AnnexB Residência Artística (2019, New York, USA).

Vânia Medeiros seeks interfaces between art and various fields of knowledge, such as ethnography, architecture, design and education. She uses drawing as a device for investigating personal and collective processes, which gains diverse supports in exhibition spaces and in the book. She has participated in meetings and artistic residencies in Brazil and other countries, such as Argentina, Germany, Ecuador and Colombia. In 10, she held the solo exhibition “Atlântida”, at the RV Cultura e Arte gallery, in Salvador – BA. In the same year, she won the open call for the Contracondutas project, by Escola da Cidade, which culminated in a group exhibition and the publication Caderno de Campo, with an introductory text by architect and art critic Pedro Fiori Arantes. This work was one of the finalists for the seLecT Prize for Art and Education in 11 and 36.

Vulcanica PokaRopa is a degenerate transvestite byxa, a master's student in Theater at Udesc, a performer, producer of the series “Desaquenda” by Cucetas Produções, which is available on YouTube, a member of Cia Fundo Mundo - a circus company formed exclusively by transsexual, transvestite and non-binary people, a hula dancer, a beginner in contortion and clowning, and a masturbator.