Meet the artists selected for the Festival's 20th edition
Associação Cultural Videobrasil and Sesc São Paulo announce the list of artists who will be participating in the 20th Sesc_Videobrasil Contemporary Art Festival, one of the leading plataforms for contemporary art in the Global South, to be held from October 2017 through January 2018 in São Paulo. Nearly 2,000 artists from 109 countries submitted works during the Open Call for the 20th Festival. The Brazilians Ana Pato, Beatriz Lemos and Diego Matos, and the Portuguese João Laia collaborated with the chief curator Solange Farkas, and were responsible for selecting the 50 artists from 25 countries who will showcase their works in this new edition.
ALIA FARID, Kuwait / Puerto Rico
ALYONA LARIONOVA, Russia / United Kingdom
ANA ELISA EGREJA, Brazil
ANA MAZZEI, Brazil
ANA VAZ, Brazil / France
ANDRÉS PADILLA DOMENE, Mexico
BÁRBARA WAGNER AND BENJAMIN DE BURCA, Brazil and Germany
CRISTIANO LENHARDT, Brazil
DANIEL MONROY CUEVAS, Mexico
DÉBORA MAZLOUM, Brazil
ELIZABETH VÁSQUEZ ARBULÚ, Peru
ELVIS ALMEIDA, Brazil
EMO DE MEDEIROS, France / Benin
ENGEL LEONARDO, Dominican Republic
FELIPE ESPARZA PÉREZ, Peru
FILIPA CÉSAR, Portugal / Germany
GRAZIELA KUNSCH, Brazil
HAIG AIVAZIAN, Lebanon
HELLEN ASCOLI, Guatemala
ÍCARO LIRA, Brazil
JAIME LAURIANO, Brazil
JIWON CHOI, South Korea / United States
KARO AKPOKIERE, Nigeria
KAVICH NEANG, Cambodia
KÖKEN ERGUN, Turkey
LA DECANATURA, Colombia
LOUISE BOTKAY, Brazil
MABE BETHÔNICO, Brazil
MANUELA DE LABORDE, Mexico
MARIANA PORTELA ECHEVERRI, Portugal / United Kingdom
MARIANA RODRIGUEZ, Argentina / Mexico
MIGUEL PENHA, Brazil
MONA VATAMANU & FLORIN TUDOR, Romania
MONIRA AL QADIRI, Senegal / Kuwait
NATASHA MENDONCA, India
PAKUI HARDWARE, Lithuania
PEDRO BARATEIRO, Portugal
QUY MINH TRUONG, Vietnam
RAFAEL PAGATINI, Brazil
RODRIGO HERNÁNDEZ, Mexico
ROY DIB, Lebanon
SAMMY BALOJI, Democratic Republic of the Congo / Belgium
SASHA LITVINTSEVA, Russia / United Kingdom
SEYDOU CISSÉ, Mali / France
THANDO MAMA, South Africa
TATEWAKI NIO, Japan / Brazil
THIAGO MARTINS DE MELO, Brazil
VIKTORIJA RYBAKOVA, Lithuania
VON CALHAU!, Portugal
XIMENA GARRIDO-LECCA, Peru