In 2015 UV Estudios, from the depths of performances and wigs, emerged as a residence/gallery/project of participatory work and exhibition in a house in the city of Buenos Aires. Its challenging and inspiring spirit allowed it to explore art in collaboration, holding over 70 exhibitions, performances, parties, international fairs, and intense collaborations with other projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2020, UV transformed itself, ending UV Gallery and becoming a project office. Today, it is a space for research, dialogue, and collaboration with artists, curators, managers, galleries, institutions, friends, and other exhibitions worldwide. In December 2022, it opened its new space in Santa Fé.
UV Estudios was the curator of Pivô Satellite 2023.
Arte Pará reached, in 2022, its 40th edition and arose from the project idealized by the journalist Romulo Maiorana (1922-1986), at the beginning of the 1980s, to create a space to support Para artists and a dialogue between the North region and the country. At a time in history when the Amazon was not generating expectations on a global scale, Maiorana awakened the public’s sensibility through the social function of art, from space for meeting and encouraging artists.
Arte Pará was born with the vocation of establishing the presence of the Amazon on the map of the arts as a salon. Throughout its uninterrupted editions, it has become a national art and education project and a place for intellectual exchange between artists, curators, and cultural agents, as well as a space for reflection and criticism, which legitimises young emerging artists. For over 20 years, Paulo Herkenhoff, one of the country’s most relevant art critics and thinkers, has been leading Arte Pará as the event’s general curator.
With a professional trajectory that articulates institutional work and innovative research, Paulo was assistant curator in the painting and sculpture department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, MoMA (1999-2002), general curator of the São Paulo Biennial and curator of the Brazilian Pavilion at the 47th Venice Biennial. He was a consultant for the IX Kassel Documenta in Germany (1991). For him, Arte Pará has “an important role in the socialization of art, developed through the educational process, much more than the art market”.
The educational project of Arte Pará is one of the most comprehensive in the national context and offers a parameter of the relationship between a complex of communication and the social insertion of art.
Master’s degree in Communication, Language, and Culture. Educational Curator of the Arte Pará Project since 2007 until the present moment. Works in the field of curating and research in the arts, having participated in selection and award juries and salon organizations.
Evaluator for the Rumos Itaú Cultural selection in 2015 and 2016. Evaluator for the Rumos Itaú Cultural selection in 2017/2017. Nominator Curator for the Pipa Prize in 2017. Curator of the Exhibition “Mastarel: Imaginal Routes” by artist Elaine Arruda at Banco da Amazônia in 2019 – Belém, PA. Curator of the Exhibition “Fabrics of Certainty” by artist Elisa Arruda at Galeria Elf in 2019 – Belém, PA. Selection Committee for the 24th Anápolino Art Salon in 2019. Selection Committee for the Rumos Itaú Cultural Call for Projects in 2019/2020. Curator of the Exhibition “At Home” by artist Elisa Arruda at Banco da Amazônia in 2021 – Belém, PA. Organizer of the Guajará Collection for the Museum of Plastic Arts in Anápolis, GO in 2021. Curator of the Exhibition of the Eduardo Vasconcelos Collection at Theodoro Braga and Benedicto Nunes Galleries in Centur, Belém, PA in 2021. Jury member of the Residencies Program at Instituto Inclusartiz – RJ in 2022. Jury Committee of the 32nd Exhibition Program at CCSP – São Paulo Cultural Center in 2022. Curator of the Exhibition of the Eduardo Vasconcelos Collection – “Desnudo” – 2022. Associate Curator of the Arte Pará Project in 2022. Curator of the Exhibition “The Inversion of Everyday Life” by artist Elisa Arruda at Galeria Ruy Meira in Belém, Pará, 2022. Curator of the Exhibition “Engraved in the Soul” from the Eduardo Vasconcelos Collection at Banco da Amazônia in Belém, Pará, 2023. Curator of the first Amazon Biennial in 2022 and 2023. Lives and works in Belém.
Violeta Mansilla (Santa Fe, Argentina 1987) works as a curator, producer, hostess, manager, teaching performer and lawyer. Since 2015, she works as the director of UV a project of residencies, research and exhibition, from 2015 to 2020 operated in a house in the neighborhood of Villa Crespo, Buenos Aires where more than 60 solo exhibitions, group exhibitions, perfuchs, presentations, workshops and parties were held. Since 2022 it opened its doors in a new house in the historic center of the city of Santa Fe. She has worked with galleries, institutions and projects throughout Argentina, as well as in Latin America, Europe and the United States. Some of her curatorial work includes “MD” at ICBC Foundation (Buenos Aires) in 2017; “LCD LSD LED”, at Museo Arte Contemporáneo (Montevideo) in 2018; “Sub-versions” at KM Gallery (Puerto Rico) in 2019, “Camp Fires” at Last Tango, Shedhalle and Tanzhaus in (Zurich) in 2021, “Greenhouse Club” at Toxi Space (Zurich). His work has been reviewed in ARTFORUM, ARTnews, The art Newspaper, Terremoto among others. From 2020 to 2022 she worked as Curator of the Residency Program of the Ama Amoedo Foundation in Uruguay. Violeta lives and works between Buenos Aires and Santa Fe.
Violeta was curator of Pivô Satélite 2023.
Mónica Heller (b. 1975, Buenos Aires) is a cartoonist, painter and video artist. Throughout her career she has created 2D and 3D animations, using both amateur production strategies and CGI models taken from open-source and free libraries. The self-taught nature of her approach to digital technology and the artisanal dedication she puts into each of her pieces laid the foundations for a DIY work ethic that characterizes and singles out both her varied production and the place she occupies within the
Argentine art scene.
Her works have been exhibited individually and collectively around the world. Among the several awards she received in recent years, the following stand out: the First Prize of the Andreani Award (2017), the Stimulus Award of the 72nd Salón Nacional Castagnino + Macro Museum (2017) and the Third Prize of the Fortabat Award (2021). She has represented the Argentina at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in 2022.
Participated in Pivô Satélite 2023
Visual artist and Master in Arts from the Universidade Federal do Pará. She is currently a doctoral student in Arts at UFPA. She works with various media, including videos, drawings, and neon installations, with the word and autofiction as her aesthetic guide, using words as a poetic medium, expanding and crossing meanings. As an artist, she has participated in exhibitions and projects in Brazil and abroad, such as: Eu, mesmo sem farol, segui, Espaço Cultural Silveira Athias, Belém, 2023; Matéria Difusa, um olhar sobre a coleção MACRS, Rio Grande do Sul, 2022; Prêmio Diário Contemporâneo de Fotografia, 2021; Praia, Galeria da Gávea, Rio de Janeiro, 2019; Triangular arte deste Século, Casa da Cultura da América Latina, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, 2019; Prêmio Diário Contemporâneo de Fotografia, Museu do Estado do Pará, 2019; Salão Arte Pará 2019, Deslendário Amazônico, Museu do Estado do Pará, 2019; Experiência Vertigem, Museu da UFPA, Belém, 2019; Outra Margem Outro Um, Casa das Artes, Belém, 2018; O Designo e a Matéria (Sesc Juazeiro do Norte, Alagoas, and Fortaleza) – 2018; Salão Arte Pará – 2017; Prêmio Diário Contemporâneo de Fotografia – 2017, 2014, and 2011; O Designo e a Matéria (Sesc Palmas and São Paulo) – 2017; No Limite/Am Limit, Museu da UFPA – 2017; Extremos, Galeria Guaçuí, Juiz de Fora – 2017; Amazonian Video Art, The Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland – 2016; Para ver se o tempo volta, Galeria Fauna, São Paulo, 2015; Alastramento, Ateliê 397, São Paulo, 2015; Meu Coração (Teu) Território, project awarded the FUNARTE Visual Arts Grant 2014 – 2015, among others.
Among Awards, Grants, and Residencies, highlights include: Research and Creation Grant from the Fundação Cultural do Pará (2018), Honorable Mention at the 35th Salão Arte Pará 2016, Funarte Visual Arts Production Stimulus Grant – 2014; Artistic Residency at the Centro Cultural São Paulo, held at the Instituto Hilda Hilst and Atelier Aberto in Campinas – SP – 2014; Research, Creation, and Experimentation Grant – Instituto de Artes do Pará – 2014; Mídias Locativas Vivo Art Mov Eco Região Amazônica Award – 2012; Acquisition Award at the Salão Pequenos Formatos Unama – PA – 2012; Acquisition Award at Salão Arte Pará – 2011; Research, Creation, and Experimentation Grant – Instituto de Artes do Pará – 2011; Art Research Grant from the Fundação Ipiranga – 2009; Artistic Residency Grant – IAP + Kunsthaus; Germany- 2006. Mapped by the RUMOS ITAÚ CULTURAL project – 2005/2006. She also works as an independent curator, currently serving as the associate curator of the Amazonian Art Collection at UFPA; associate curator of Arte Pará 2019 (Exhibition Deslendário Amazônico); Presence in Collections: Casa da Cultura da América Latina, Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul, Sesc Nacional, Amazonian Art Collection, Museu Casa das Onze Janelas, and Fundo Z.
She participated in Pivô Satélite 2023.
This project is a realization of the Secretaria Municipal de Cultura de São Paulo and Pivô Arte e Pesquisa, through the Programa Municipal de Apoio a Projetos Culturais PROMAC, established by Law n°15.948/2013.
Works with video, performance, and artificial nails. Their work explores the boundaries of identity, nature, and culture, examining their multiple productions and inefficacies. In 2018, they received the National Visual Arts Award of Uruguay. They are a certified PADI Diver and currently live between Buenos Aires and Mexico City. Since 2018, they have been collaborating with Florencia Rodriguez Giles on a project that delves into the imaginative power of the underwater world.
Participated in Pivô Satélite 2023.
This project is a realization of the Secretaria Municipal de Cultura de São Paulo and Pivô Arte e Pesquisa, through the Programa Municipal de Apoio a Projetos Culturais PROMAC, established by Law n°15.948/2013.
Florencia Rodriguez Giles explores the relationship between contemporary artistic practices and therapeutic procedures through means that include drawing, video, performance, and research into experimental pedagogical practices. Since 2018, she has had a project with Emilio Bianchic that explores the imaginative power of the underwater world. She holds a degree from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredon and is a certified PADI diver. In 2006, she continued her training with Nicola Costantino. The following year, she attended the Diana Aisenberg art clinic, and between 2010 and 2011, she participated in the Kuitca Scholarship / Torcuato Di Tella University.
Her work has been supported by numerous grants, including from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fundación Antorchas of the Ministry of Culture of the Argentine Nation, and the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP) in France. In 2016, she received the first Braque Muntref Prize, and in 2019, the first Federico Klemm Prize. She has also participated in residencies at Palm Heights Hotel (Cayman Islands, 2022); Le Magasin- Centre National d’Art Contemporain (Grenoble, France, 2017); Frac Lorraine (Metz, France, 2016); Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, France, 2016-2017); Paradise Air (Japan, 2015); Arcus Studio Residency for Artists (Japan, 2014); and AIT- Arts Initiative Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan, 2009).
Among her individual performances and exhibitions, the following stand out: Symtomario (Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, 2022), Ronco Oceânico (Performance Biennial, 2019), Biodelica (Galería Ruth Benzacar, 2018); EsquizoPicnic (Museo Reina Sofía, Spain, 2018); Liminoid Session (Palais de Tokyo, France, 2016); Strabisme Internet (Galerie Bendana-Pinel, 2016); Hiperestesia (Muntref, 2016).
The therapeutic possibilities of artistic practice are part of her research fields. In this context, her work at the Clube de Artes e Lazer (La Plata, 2021-), GAYA (La Plata, 2019), INHA (Paris, 2019), EHPAD, Solexine, (G.E.M.) (Grenoble, 2017-18), the palliative care service for adults at the Legouest Hospital (Metz, 2016), the Luis Agote Juvenile Institute (Bs. As, 2014), and the Ricardo Gutierrez Children’s Hospital, Palliative Care Area (2010-2016) is worth highlighting.
She participated in Pivô Satélite 2023.
This project is a realization of the Secretaria Municipal de Cultura de São Paulo and Pivô Arte e Pesquisa, through the Programa Municipal de Apoio a Projetos Culturais PROMAC, established by Law n°15.948/2013.
Anthropologist with a degree from the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and the Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), working as a professor and researcher at the intersection of urban anthropology and gender and sexuality studies. He entered the field of Visual Arts in 2019, independently, with a photo-performance titled “Movimento-Ação”, performed on the Island of Cotijuba (PA).
In 2020, he began his creative process for the production of “Corpo (in)finito?”, an audiovisual essay that seeks to compose narratives about life and death in the urban landscape of the city of Belém. In the same year, he presented a video-oriented performance with the same name at the Pequeno Encontro da Fotografia (online edition). Also in 2020, his first authored poem (Cotidiano) was published in a Poetry Anthology in the Concurso Nacional Sarau Brasil. In 2022, he was selected in the category Fomento à Produção de Artistas Emergentes da Amazônia Legal to be part of the 40th Salão Arte Pará. Still in 2022, he independently released the short film “Corpo (in)finito?”. His works are permeated by the relationship between textual and bodily language as a way of reflecting on the body, gender, sexuality, territory, urban space, memory, and ancestry.
He participated in Pivô Satélite 2023.
This project is a realization of the Secretaria Municipal de Cultura de São Paulo and Pivô Arte e Pesquisa, through the Programa Municipal de Apoio a Projetos Culturais PROMAC, established by Law No. 15.948/2013.
Esteban Igartua (Lima, Peru, 1974) makes paintings and drawings depicting landscapes and scenes that highlight the organic aspect of human life. The boundary between the human being and the surrounding environment is blurred and, in some cases, indistinguishable.
He studied painting at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, then at the Slade School of Arts and Byam Shaw, London. In 2003 his work was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries, which took place in Manchester and London that year.
His latest solo exhibitions include: ‘Coliflor’, Proyecto Amil, Lima (2018), ‘Excursión’, Garúa, Lima (2015) and ‘Campo Ocupado’, Revolver Galeria, Lima (2012). His work has been part of group exhibitions in Peru, the UK, Brazil, Spain, Albania, and Colombia. It has been referenced in publications such as “77 Contemporary Peruvian Artists” (2017), edited by Mario Testino Museum – MATE and New Contemporaries (2003). In 2019, Proyecto Amil published “Coliflor”, bringing together the works that were part of the exhibition of the same name and texts by contemporary Peruvian writers. He currently lives and works in Bristol, UK.
Genietta Varsi (Lima, Peru, 1991) investigates from a sculptural point of view how matter (bodies) shape and transform the environment with their behavior and vice versa. Varsi works with multidisciplinary methodologies and tools combining art, medicine, biochemistry, ecology, mechanics, and anthropology to think and unthink the body in the everyday. The media she works with include sculpture, drawing, video, sound, actions, workshops, and printed publications.
She is pursuing a Master’s degree in Visual Culture, Contemporary Art and Curatorship at Aalto University, Finland. She studied sculpture at the PUCP in Peru. He has participated in the artistic residencies Uberbau_House and Residencia Artística FAAP in São Paulo, Brazil, in Molten Capital at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo-Quinta Normal in Santiago de Chile. She had received the Artus grant for Delfina Foundation in London, England. His latest solo exhibitions include: “Pumping Roots”, Galeria 35m2, Prague “Pneumatic Driving” Ginsberg, Lima, 2021, “El dedo pulgar es el que ejecuta”, Ginsberg, Lima, 2018. Varsi has presented his projects in group exhibitions and film festivals in Europe and South America.
Participating artists of Pivô Satellite #5
Gianfranco Piazzini Alcántara (Lima, Peru,1984) studied at the Art Faculty of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He currently works with different media, mainly video, animation, drawing, and sound.
His work addresses the representation of emptiness, the blurring of boundaries, and the abstraction that remains when the limits of language, culture, and reason expand. He explores identity through the limits of the body, the transplantation of concepts, and the mutability of definitions, which are conditioned by time and memory.
Diego Vizcarra Soberón (Lima, Peru, 1981) is an animation filmmaker, he studied at the Film School in Lima, Peru, and at the Escuela de Trazos in Madrid, Spain. He departs from surrealism, psychedelia, and poetry to inquire, in a critical spirit, concerns, reflections, dreams, or visions that question our contemporary condition. The artist is interested in the status of the image or the relationship – both personal and social – with the natural environment.
His works have been shown at festivals in Peru, Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Argentina, and Spain.
Participating artists of Pivô Satellite #5
Sylvia Fernández (Lima, 1978) studied Fine Arts at the Escola Superior de Arte Corriente Alterna, she has participated in several group and solo exhibitions in Lima and abroad. Among these, the solo exhibition ‘Volvamos’ curated by Nicolás Gómez Echeverri (Galería del Paseo, 2021), ‘Negar el desierto’ (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo MAC Lima, 2020), ‘Vamos Desapareciendo’ (Salón ACME, 2020) and ‘Conversaciones con Carmen’, exhibition curated by Jorge Villacorta (ICPNA Miraflores, 2019). She has participated in different competitions, being a semi-finalist in the BP Portrait Award (London, 2017) and finalist in the Fundación Focus Abengoa (Spain, 2005), ‘Pasaporte para un Artista’ (Lima, 2004), among others. In addition, she has participated in art fairs such as Arco (Spain) and Cologne Art Fair (Germany).
Rodrigo Andreolli (Rayo Wasser) (1984, São Paulo) transits through the arts, exercising the body as an element of sensitive activation of the visible and invisible layers of public matter. He works in the elaboration of production structures for multidisciplinary art projects.
Associated with the company Teatro Oficina Uzyna Uzona (2006, São Paulo), he was a resident artist and producer of the Residency for dance LOTE (2011-2014, São Paulo) and structural artist of the research project Terreyro Coreográfico (2014-2017, São Paulo), he was also part of the Residency Helmet in Athens (2017), Master in Choreography and Performance at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies (ATW), JLU, Gießen, Germany (2018-2022), Research Affiliate in the ACT, Arts, Culture and Technology Program at MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2020), and Danceweb Scholarship Program 2015 – Vienna Dance Festival Impulstanz.
Some of the most recent works are “Matter Mythologies” (2019, Athens, Greece), supported by Creative Europe Mobility Funds – IPortunus; “Zu Verschenken” (2021, Giessen/ Frankfurt, Germany); “Vibrations of the Ignoto” (2022, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), performance and installation in mixed reality, part of the Museums Conference, commissioned by the Goethe-Institut Rio de Janeiro, in partnership with the National Museum and Rio Art Museum.
Participating artists of Pivô Satellite #5
www.aarea.co is a curatorial platform founded in 2017 that commissions and exhibits artworks designed especially for the internet. aarea’s activities also extend into a public curatorial program, courses, seminars, and projects in partnership with other art institutions. Founded by Livia Benedetti and Marcela Vieira, aarea is the first internet native art institution in Brazil and has been developing projects in institutional partnerships, such as Bienal de São Paulo, Jeu de Paume (Paris), CCA Wattis Institute (San Francisco), Pivô, Sesc, Pro Helvetia (Switzerland), Salón Nacional de Bogotá (Colombia), among others. aarea has held courses, lectures, and educational activities in places such as the University of São Paulo, Université Rennes II (France), Federal University of Amazonas, Sesc, and the British School of Creative Arts.
Guest curators Pivô Research 2020 Cycle I and edition #4 of Pivô Satélite (2022) .
Pedro Victor Brandão (Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 1985) works with photography, painting, moving image and social experimentation. He confronts the artistic traditions in assessments of the present and future of capitalism. His research combines different fields of knowledge, such as economics, the right to the city, cybernetics and the current manipulable nature of the technical image. Victor Brandão studied photography at Estácio de Sá University in Rio de Janeiro and attended free courses at Escola de Artes Visuais Parque Lage and the Summer University at Capacete. He held the solo shows “Pintura antifurto”, in Casa França-Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), “Tela Preparada”, in Sé gallery (São Paulo, Brazil), and “Forjada e Outras Formas” in Portas Vilaseca Gallery (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), among others. He has participated in group shows such as “Vivemos na melhor cidade da América do Sul”, in Iberê Camargo Foundation (Porto Alegre, Brazil), “Take Me, I’m Yours”, in Villa Medici (Rome, Italy), and “O Rio é uma Serpente”, in SESC (Sorocaba, Brazil).
Artist participated in Pivô Pesquisa 2018 and in Pivô Satélite #4. (2022)
Raphael Fonseca is a researcher at the intersection of curating, art history, criticism and education. He is currently preparing the exhibition “Sweat”, opening this year 2021, at Haus der Kunst (Munich, Germany), co-curated by Anna Schneider. He is a curator, along with Renée Akitelek Mboya, of the 22nd edition of the Bienal_Sesc_Videobrasil, in 2023. He worked as a curator of the Contemporary Art Museum of Niterói (MAC Niterói) between 2017 and 2020. He holds a doctoral degree in Art Criticism and Art History at UERJ (State University of Rio de Janeiro). Among his exhibitions, highlight to “Vaivém” (CCBB SP, DF, RJ and MG, 2019-2020); “Lost and found” (ICA Singapore, 2019); “Bestiário” (CCSP, 2017); “Deslize <surfing skate>” (Museu de Arte do Rio, 2014) and “Água mole, pedra dura” (1st Bienal do Barro de Caruaru, 2014).
www.raphaelfonseca.net
Invited curator Pivô Satellite #3
Victor Gorgulho (Rio de Janeiro, 1991) is a curator, journalist and researcher based in Rio de Janeiro. Graduated in Journalism from ECO-UFRJ. He holds a master’s degree in Literature and Contemporary Culture from PUC-Rio.
Curated the exhibitions We live in the best city of South America, along with curator Bernardo José de Souza (Átomos, Rio de Janeiro, 2016 and Iberê Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre, 2017); The third world asks for a blessing and goes to sleep (Despina, Rio de Janeiro, 2017); I’ve always dreamed of a museum in fire – Laura Lima & Luiz Roque at Carlos Werneck’s Puppet Theater (Rio de Janeiro, 2018); Perdona que no te crea (Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, Rio de Janeiro, 2019).
Co-curator, with Keyna Eleison, of the exhibition Engraved in the body, at Carpintaria, Rio de Janeiro, on view until February 2021.
Since 2019 he is the curator of MIRA, ArtRio’s videoart program. He is part of the curatorial body of Despina, a research center and artistic residency space in Rio de Janeiro, under the direction of Consuelo Bassanesi. At the space’s cineclub, has promoted the screening of films and conversations with artists such as Cristiano Lenhardt, DISTRUKTUR and Karim Aïnouz.
As a journalist, he worked as assistant editor of culture for Jornal do Brasil (2014-2017) and today collaborates with vehicles such as El País Brasil. Co-organizer, along with critic and curator Luisa Duarte, of the book No tremor do mundo – Essays and interviews in the light of the pandemic (Editora Cobogó, 2020).
Guest curator Pivô Satélite 2021 #2
Davi Pontes (São Gonçalo, 1990)
Artist, choreographer and researcher. Graduated in Arts at Universidade Federal Fluminense and Master’s student in the Postgraduate Program in Arts (Contemporary Studies of the Arts) at the same institution. He studied at the ESMAE Superior School of Music and Arts (Porto, Portugal).
Since 2016 he has presented his work in art galleries and national and international festivals, mainly at the University of Pennsylvania (USA), Pivô (São Paulo), Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon), Rua das Gaivotas 6 (Porto), Galeria Vermelho (São Paulo), Valongo International Image Festival (São Paulo), Rumos Itaú Cultural 2021 Program, Panorama Festival (Rio de Janeiro), Artfizz – HOA Galeria (USA) and resident in the Pivô Arte Pesquisa Program, in the Research Residency Program in arts at MAM Rio and at the Escola Livre de Artes – ELÃ, among others. He directed the film Rave the Racial in partnership with the artist Wallace Ferreira, a work commissioned by the Pivô Satellite Program, 2021.
Developing a research that starts in the body, his practice carries the constant challenge of positioning choreography to respond to its own ontoepistemological conditions -, to serve politically in the face of the conditions in which it is being practiced. The artist has dedicated his practice to deepen the concepts of raciality, choreography and self-defense and their entanglements based on the idea of archive contained in the production of History.
Wallace Ferreira (Rio de Janeiro, 1993)
Dance artist, performer, visual artist born and raised in Vigário Geral, a suburb of Rio de Janeiro. His first artistic reference arises in childhood with his family, where everyone dances and builds their relationships through affection and movement. With the encouragement of his father, he began his studies in dance as a child. Projecting futures previously dreamed. He studies Dance at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), building strategies and choreographing actions to escape representations. Through undisciplinary practices, his creations cause accidents in the languages of dance, theater, performance and the visual arts, investing in the perception of himself as a possible path of muscular dreams. Through other perspectives, new visions of the self. His work is also an obsession with entering layers of the invisible, inhabiting fragilities, accumulating movements that wish to blur certainties and dispute narratives. To betray words and produce images to touch with your eyes. Driven by the challenges of tensioning the present, since 2017 he has been presenting his works in art galleries, national and international festivals such as Pivô Satellite, Festival Panorama, ArtRio, Presença Exhibition, HOA ART, Artfizz. Among his most recent works, highlight to the trilogy “Repertório” in partnership with the artist Davi Pontes who was at the VERBO Exhibition at Galeria Vermelho, Valongo International Image Festival in São Paulo, Segunda Preta, Belo Horizonte, Anita Schwartz art gallery, Rio de Janeiro.
Participating artists of Pivô Satellite #2
Diambe da Silva was born and raised on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Her artistic production moves between cinema, sculpture and choreography and often deals with materialities like cement, food, engraving, photography and words that are elaborated to the extent that she creates companions in situations of diaspora. Her work was exhibited in Museu de Arte do Rio (Casa Carioca), Paço Imperial (Esqueleto, uma história do Rio), Galpão Bela Maré (Transcendências), Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (Arte Naïf; Estopim e Segredo), Carpintaria – Fortes D’Aloia e Gabriel (Escrito no corpo), Despina (Cartões de revisita) and 25º Salão de Artes de Anápolis. She also participated in the residences MAM / Capacete (2020), Despina (2019), Estado crítico (2018) and in the itinerary program Residência Cem Teto (2019-2020).
http://cargocollective.com/diambe
https://vimeo.com/387099169
Instagram: @diambe_eu_vc
Participating in Pivô Satellite #2
Diane Lima is an independent curator, critic and researcher. She has an MD in Communication and Semiotics at PUC-SP, her work consists of experimenting with contemporary curatorial practices from a decolonial perspective. She is currently part of the curatorial team of the 3rd edition of Frestas – Trienal de Artes at SESC-SP and since 2018 she has been curating the Valongo Festival. Among her main projects, the idealization of the AfroTranscendence art-education program stands out; the curatorship between 2016 and 2017 of Itaú Cultural Diálogos Ausentes exhibition program and the participation in 2018 in the CCSP Art Critics Group. In 2019 she was co-curator of the PlusAfroT Residence and the group exhibition Lost Body – displacement as choreography, both projects that took place in Munich-Germany. Sworn in by several selections and award commissions, she is a professor at Itaú Cultural’s Specialization in Cultural Management and editorially co-curates two contemporary art publications, one by Act. and the other by French publisher Brook, both in press.
Ana Raylander Mártis dos Anjos is born in the world’s end, currently lives in São Paulo. In her artistic practice, she seeks to establish a dialogue between collective history and her own history, which she has called a practice in chorality, involving groups of people for collaborations and experiences of collision. With a background in clowning, a BA in Visual Arts from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) and Art and Multimedia from Escola Superior Gallaecia (Portugal), she understands her performance as an interdisciplinary and transversal activity. She has frequently resorted to the knowledge of education, writing, performance and play as a way of composing verbal, corporal and ethical machinery to discuss her urgencies in long-term projects. She was awarded a residency at the Adelina Institute (2019) and the EDP in the Arts Residency Award, from the Tomie Ohtake Institute (2018), performed the Choros Choros project, in the CCSP Exhibition Program (2018), participated in exhibitions at Aura Gallery, Centro Cultural UFMG, XIX Bienal Internacional de Cerveira e Novas Poéticas. She held solo shows in Brazil and Spain.
Participating artist at Pivô Satellite #1.
Diego Araúja is from Salvador-BA, Brazil, and produces art in an expanded way. His media are literary, visual, scenic and cinematographic. He acts as director, playwright, screenwriter and visual artist. Since 2013 he directs the process Estética Para um Não-Tempo (Aesthetics for a Non-Time), with the objective of establishing a qualitative time that allows the production of emancipated afro-diasporic memories; what he calls Fundamentos Futuros (Future Foundations). In this process, he experimented with the creation of oríkì’s (oral literature of Yorùbá origin), which generated the work QUASEILHAS (2018). In 2017 he founded the ÀRÀKÁ Platform with artist Laís Machado. In 2018, he designed a choreographic performance for the video installation A Marvelous Entanglement, by British artist Isaac Julien. In the same year, he did his artistic residency at Atlantic Center For The Arts (Florida-USA), where he created the video installation Oríkì das Araújas, experimenting with synthetic sound vibrations in oríkì’s. In 2020, he did his artistic residency at SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin-GER). Currently, Araúja is developing authorial cinematographic work, while organizing the foundation of the International Creole Laboratory.
Participating artist at Pivô Satellite #1.
biarritzzz (Fortaleza, 1994) lives and works in Recife, Brazil. New media interdisciplinary artist whose focus is to understand the interactions between the internet universe, the image world and the non-hegemonic bodies, investigating the infinite languages from this intersection and their cryptographies as tools of power. In her work, she remixes pop culture, video art, meme politics, video game aesthetics and poetry with new media, her natural habitat. One of the first exponent Brazilian artists in GIF art, biarritzzz extrapolates her childhood and nerdy experiences in this world of epileptic images in motion, usurping digital aesthetics and putting into play the false question of technicity versus amateurism/science versus magic in the creation of realities.
Participating artist of Pivô Satellite # 1
The artist participated in the video program of the show ‘from underwater mountains fire makes islands’, curated by Yina Jiménez Suriel, in 2022.