The fire between past and future
Nathalia Colli
Five hundred and forty-nine thousand people killed by the coronavirus in Brazil, the dollar rate continues to rise, millions of unemployed and millions of homeless have can be counted. Central headline “Statue of Borba Gato is set on fire in the south of São Paulo, two were arrested”. This is a screenshot of a newspaper page from July 24, 2021. Nobody was hurt. Except the two prisoners. The blacks.
Program of Texts: The reflection of the knife
Caio Bonifácio and Renata Masini Hein
The gesture of refusal and the expression on Iole's face when facing her reflection in the mirror demonstrate an eloquent confrontation with her own body - a closed body, as if imposing, to a repression. The hardness of an armor of emphatic refusal, of a body that confronts at the same time that it retreats. The knife is ambiguously a symbol of violence: it is just an instrument, which, depending on who wields it, is capable of repressing or releasing.
Exhibition: 4 videos by Leslie Thornton
org. Cris Ambrosio, Deyson Glibert, Frederico Filippi and Pontogor
A warp of voices, images, overlapping accounts and descriptions, ethical crossroads and scientific meditations appear in the production of American artist Leslie Thornton since its beginnings in the 1970s. This exhibition, whose title comes from the first film in the 'Peggy and Fred in Hell', covers works from different moments in Thornton's career and focuses on the experimental ‘There was an Unseen Cloud Moving’ (1988).
Program of Texts: “Avoid the North American part because there is only television, you hear?”
Cássia Hosni
The inclusion of moving images into the exhibitions of the São Paulo Biennial in the early 1970s can be seen as a setting of technical, aesthetic, and geopolitical conflict. Such conflicts proliferated due to the very model adopted by the event (and abandoned only in 2006, in its 27th edition), which was based on national representations wherein the invited countries pay for the transport of works and equipment—and therefore have the final word on what will be displayed.
Exhibition: Horror Vacui
Pontogor (org.)
The moraes-barbosa collection presents the exhibition Horror Vacui, organized by the artist and collection’s former fellowship holder. The exhition presents itself as an unfolding development of Pontogor’s research results in the collection’s archive, investigating the different renderings of emptiness in art.
“The desire to see is thus diverted into an invitation to act; the relations between what and how is being represented coalesce in the production of a subjectivity in making.”*
*excerpt from the text 'The Blind Viewer' by Helena Vilalta.
Program of Texts:
Creation and care in mixing vibrating/material bodies
jialu pombo
The intertwining between life and death that Lygia talks about is what I call the expression of vulnerability-force: there is a force present in an embryo that carries potential information of life, and for such a life to come into existence, whatever carries it needs to open its hand to its form, reach the height of its vulnerability, and blend in to germinate something else.
Program of Texts:
Arc
Frederico Filippi
While in the late 1960s artists are isolating themselves in the North American deserts, tractors and backhoes are opening immense trenches in an absolutely humid territory, where you can't see the horizon with your feet on the ground, maybe not even three meters ahead, and yet it's considered infinite.
Ethics of Collecting:
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The moraes-barbosa collection is co-founder of the Code of Conduct for Contemporary Art Collectors. The initiative aims to set ethical duties for those who own artworks towards such artworks, their authors, and the professional environment surrounding them.
Click to access Ethics of Collecting.
Exhibition:
Possession State: notes for an aesthetic of torture
19/11
Cris Ambrosio & Deyson Gilbert (org.)
𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯:
In a strict sense, ideological drama established in the field of conscience by the conflict of one or more entities that claim, all at once, control over the same countenance. In a dilated form, a crossroaded category: a spiritual path of beings butchered by the historical and political blades of the territories, bodies, and symbols (demonology of weights, wills and the owned). In a direct puncture: misalliance and fractured conciliation between images, things, and inclinations. In essence: the exorcism of the eyes against the sweat of the hands and the drool of the assholes.
This November, cmb will launch its new space with a showing of part of its archive and collection.
Research:
1st cycle
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For 6 months, Antônio Ewbank, Bruno Baptistelli, Erica Ferrari, Pontogor and Tom Nóbrega received a research grant to develop their work in intersection with the moraes-barbosa collection’s archive.
