19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil: Southern Panoramas | Selected Works

Part of 19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil, at the Convivência Space of Sesc Pompeia, the exhibition Southern Panoramas | Selected works presents videos, installations, sound pieces, photos, engravings, paintings, performances and installations about historical, political, geographical, cultural and aesthetical issues that are relevant for the geopolitical South, such as diasporas, hybrid identities, migrations and travels, personal narratives, memory, isolation, social tissue and singularity. Selected through an open call for entries, these works outline either a crisis scenario where pressing political and social issues require addressing, a post-utopian environment beyond human presence, or the possibilities for a new engagement of the subject in the world.

According to the curators, without corresponding to an easily identifiable set of political, social, historical, and economic situations, the global South reaffirms itself as an imagined territory, where attempts are being made to produce discourses about our world that do not involve the hegemonic modalities associated with the West. Within the contemporary art context, countries in this symbolic axis are habitually absent from the encompassing narratives that are considered to underlie current art practices. The circulation of the counter-narratives they produce is met with historical resistance.

The selection featured at Southern Panoramas | Selected Works points to questions that animate and fuel art production in the South today. The works outline three broad scenarios. The first one could be defined through the growing idea of crisis. Other pieces explore a post-utopian environment that lies beyond human presence. A third set heralds the possibilities for a new engagement of the subject in the world.

Artists:
Ali Cherri (Lebanon/France)
Aline X e Gustavo Jardim (Brazil)
Ana Vaz (Brazil/France)
Andres Bedoya (Bolivia)
Armando Queiroz (Brazil)
Beto Shwafaty (Brazil)
Bianca Baldi (South Africa/Germany)
Carlos Mélo (Brazil)
Chameckilerner (Brazil)
Chulayarnnon Siriphol (Thailand)
Clara Ianni (Brazil)
Daniel Frota (Brazil/Netherlands)
Daniel Jacoby (Peru/Netherlands)
Daniel Monroy Cuevas (Mexico)
Débora Bolsoni (Brazil)
Distruktur (Brazil/Germany)
Dor Guez (Israel)
Enrique Ramírez (Chile/France)
Felipe Bittencourt (Brazil)
Haroon Gunn-Salie (South Africa)
Hui Tao (China)
Iosu Aramburu (Peru)
João Castilho (Brazil)
Karolina Bregula (Poland)
Köken Ergun (Turkey)
Kush Badhwar (India)
Leticia Ramos (Brazil)
Louise Botkay (Brazil)
Luciana Magno (Brazil)
Maria Kramar (Russia)
Marinos Koutsomichalis, Maria Varela, Afroditi Psarra (Greece)
Maya Watanabe (Peru/Netherlands)
Michael MacGarry (South Africa)
Mihai Grecu (Romania/France)
Monica Rodriguez (Porto Rico/USA)
Pablo Lobato (Brazil)
Paulo Nazareth (Brazil)
Paulo Nimer Pjota (Brazil)
Pilar Mata Dupont (Australia)
Rafael RG (Brazil)
Roberto Santaguida (Canada/Serbia)
Rodolpho Parigi (Brazil)
Rodrigo Cass (Brazil)
Roy Dib (Lebanon)
Runo Lagomarsino (Sweden/Brazil)
Slinko (Ukraine/USA)
Solon Ribeiro (Brazil)
Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski (Peru/France)
Taus Makhacheva (Russia)
Tiécoura N’Daou (Mali)
Vera Chaves Barcellos (Brazil)
Viktorija Rybakova (Lithuania/Mexico)
Waléria Américo (Brazil)