April 02 (Saturday) | from 1pm to 5pm
April 02 (Saturday) from 1pm to 5pm will see two exhibition openings at Galpão VB:
Agridoce, by Haroon Gunn-Salie, is the outcome of the 1st SP-Arte/Videobrasil Prize. The South African artist presents a site-specific piece spawned by his relationship with people who were directly affected by the environmental disaster late last year in Mariana (Minas Gerais). The artist collected and transported all of the material from the accident site (including the mud and the walls of a partly buried house) to build a set of artworks that look into the silence that acts upon personal experiences and accounts to retrieve the human dimension of the story. Click here to learn more about Agridoce.
Videobrasil Collection in Context #2 is the second exhibit in Associação’s artist residency project, this time held in partnership with the curatorial artist residency program A-I-R Laboratory – of the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle – under a Polish cultural promotion program in Brazil organized by Culture.pl in 2016. Poland’s Karol Radziszewski materializes, at the Galpão VB venue, his Queer Archives Institute, a constantly evolving research project that draws on private collections for graphic material and images that recount LGBT stories in Eastern Europe and in Brazil. The Brazilian artist Vitor Cesar will occupy Galpão VB with the installation Anfibologia, tradução, dealing with space as an open archive, and extending into architecture his research on the poetical potency of ambiguity and the amphibian character of the words. Click here to learn more about Videobrasil Collection in Context #2.
Both shows will run until June 11 from Tuesday to Friday, 12pm to 6pm, and on Saturday, 11am to 5pm, with free admission.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Haroon Gunn-Salie
Haroon Gunn-Salie’s collaborative art practice translates community oral histories into artistic interventions and installations. His multidisciplinary practice utilizes a variety of mediums, drawing focus to forms of collaboration in contemporary art based on dialogue and exchange. Gunn-Salie’s graduate exhibition titled Witness (2012) presented a site-specific body of work focusing on still unresolved issues of forced removals under apartheid, working with veteran residents of District Six, an area in central Cape Town where widespread forced removals occurred. Gunn-Salie completed his BA Hons in sculpture at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2012. Significant exhibitions and projects that have featured Gunn-Salie’s work include: Simon Castets and Hans Ulrich Obrist’s 89plus project, at the Design Indaba in Cape Town (2014),; Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, which travelled to the Vitra Design Museum and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2015); What Remains is Tomorrow, the South African Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia (2015); and the 19º Festival de Arte Contemporânea Sesc Videobrasil (2015). Haroon Gunn-Salie lives between Johannesburg (South Africa) and Belo Horizonte (Brazil).
Karol Radziszewski
A multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker and curator, Karol Radziszewski completed a master’s degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, in 2004. Employing an archive-based methodology, he weaves together multiple cultural, historical, religious, social and gender references. He is the editor-in-chief of DIK Fagazine, a magazine that combines research on queer archives and contemporary art contributions. He is also the founder of the Queer Archives Institute. His work has been shown at the National Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Zacheta National Gallery (Warsaw, Poland); the Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna, Austria); the New Museum (New York); the Cobra Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands); the Wroclaw Contemporary Museum (Poland), and the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz (Poland). He has also exhibited at international biennials including the PERFORMA 13 (New York); the 7th Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (Sweden); the 4th Prague Biennale (Czech Republic) and the 15th WRO Media Art Biennale (Wroclaw). Karol Radziszewski lives and works in Warsaw.
Vitor Cesar
Visual artist and designer. His art practice builds on different notions of public and on aspects of everyday life. He develops graphic projects in collaboration with artists and cultural organizations. Vitor Cesar studied Architecture and Urban Design at the Federal University of Ceará (2003) and completed a master’s in Visual Arts at the School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo (2009), with a research into notions of public space in art practices. In the city of Fortaleza, he was a member of the art study group Alpendre, of the group Transição Listrada (1999-2004), which carried out actions and performances in the city, and he established BASE – a venue for meetings, discussions and exhibitions. With Graziela Kunsch, Cesar co-organized the project Arte e esfera pública (2008). Since 2005, he has been working on the Basemóvel project. He produced the exhibitions Descrito como real, in collaboration with Enrico Rocha, at the São Paulo Cultural Center (2015); Anfibologia, reciprocidade, at Museo Experimental El Eco, in Mexico City (2013); and his work was featured in the group exhibitions Mano Fato Mano, at the São Paulo Cultural Center (2014); 33rd Panorama of Brazilian Art, at the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art (2013); and the 8th Mercosul Biennial, in Porto Alegre (2011). He is a member of the O Grupo Inteiro collective alongside Carol Tonetti, Claudio Bueno and Ligia Nobre. Vitor Cesar lives and works in São Paulo.