In past editions, major solo shows by artists like Olafur Eliasson and Peter Greenaway were held parallel to the exhibition of artists selected via the open call for the Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil, encouraging a dialogue between art productions from the global South and North. This year, the 19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil | Southern Panoramas goes in-depth on the global South.
Abdoulaye Konaté (Mali), Gabriel Abrantes (Portugal), Rodrigo Matheus (Brazil), Sonia Gomes (Brazil) and Yto Barrada (Morocco / France) are the artists invited by the committee composed of curators Bernardo José de Souza (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Bitu Cassundé (Ceará, Brazil), João Laia (Lisbon, Portugal) and Júlia Rebouças (Sergipe, Brazil), working in collaboration with Solange Farkas, the Festival’s chief curator. The selected artworks attest to the potency of art production from this geopolitical area and reflect the radicalization of this edition’s proposal, which transformed the South and its myriad issues into the core of the curatorial axes. The 19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil | Southern Panoramas will run from October 6 to December 6, 2015, at different venues throughout the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The six artists have been invited for their backgrounds and their landmark research work into the global South — and in keeping with the curatorial guidelines in place for this edition.
Venue: Sesc Pompeia’s Galpão