In the evening of October 10, the Award Jury of the 19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil | Southern Panoramas, composed of Hoor Al-Qasimi (UAE), N’Goné Fall (Senegal), Priscila Arantes (Brazil), Till Fellrath (Switzerland) and Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy (Mexico), announced this edition’s eleven winning artists and three honorable mentions, chosen from the 53 artists shortlisted following a call for submissions:
GRAND PRIZE: Hui Tao, China
Talk about body, 2013, video
The winner of the Grand Prize of BRL 75,000 was Hui Tao (China), for his video Talk about body (2013). It discusses the coexistence of different times and cultures, urban and rural settings, and traditions and progresses that grow outdated and reinvent themselves. Sitting on his bed, dressed like a Muslim woman, he describes himself. According to the jury, “In a wholly unassuming way, Tao’s video engages with some of the most pressing issues of our times: race, gender, religious traditions, the importance of listening to the other, and the importance of seeing oneself… all of this with the potential to create a much-needed sense of radical empathy in our world, in these times.”
RESIDENCY PRIZES
The Residency Prizes, first awarded in 1990, help usher in a new artistic and cultural cartography. The selected artists undertake two-month residencies at Videobrasil Residency Program partner organizations around the world. Thanks to Videobrasil’s becoming a part of a vast network of collaborators, the program already spanned all five continents, and for the 19th Festival it will cover Latin America, North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, bringing together the South-South and South-North axes.
A-I-R Laboratory Residency Prize
at A-I-R Laboratory (Warsaw, Poland)
Clara Ianni, Brazil
Forma Livre, 2013, video
Linha, 2013, drawing
Arquetopia_Videobrasil Residency Prize
at Arquetopia (Puebla, Mexico)
Paulo Nazareth, Brazil
Videos: L’Arbre D’Oublier, 2013; Cine África, 2012-13;
Ipê Amarelo, 2012-13
China Art Foundation Residency Prize
at Red Gate Residency (Beijing, China)
Koken Ergun, Turkey
Bayrak (The Flag), 2006, video installation
Delfina_Videobrasil Residency Prize
at Delfina Foundation (London, United Kingdom)
Luciana Magno, Brazil
Trans Amazônica, 2013, video
Goethe-Institut Residency Prize
at Residence Vila Sul (Salvador, Brazil)
Roy Dib, Lebanon
A Spectacle of Privacy, 2014, video installation
Res Artis Residency Prize
at Djerassi Resident Artists Program (Woodside, Usa)
Karolina Bregula, Poland
Fire-Followers, 2013, video
Res Artis Residency Prize
at Kooshk Residency (Tehran, Iran)
Aline X & Gustavo Jardim, Brazil
Tocaia, 2014, video installation
Res Artis Residency Prize
at Kyoto Art Center (Kyoto, Japan)
Maya Watanabe, Peru / Netherlands
Escenarios II, 2014, video installation
Wexner Center For The Arts Residency Prize
at Wexner Center For The Arts (Columbus, USA)
Pilar Mata Dupont, Australia
Purgatorio, 2014, video
SPECIAL PRIZE: Haroon Gunn-Salie, South Africa
This year, the Festival awarded a special prize to a piece that is not a part of the jury’s selection pool: the SP-Arte/Videobrasil Prize. The artist Haroon Gunn-Salie (South Africa), featured in the Festival with his sculpture Sunday Best (2014), will have a solo exhibition slated to open during the São Paulo International Art Fair in April 2016, at Associação Cultural Videobrasil’s headquarters Galpão VB.