
Among the closing activities for 2024, Pivô presents a dialogue between Colombian artist Gabriel Sierra, the latest resident at Pivô Salvador, and Salvador-based artist Daniel Jorge.
This gathering marks the launch of a new residency model that fosters informal presentations between local and international artists, encouraging exchanges of experiences and laying fertile ground for new collective projects. The format prioritizes creative processes and spontaneous connections, steering away from immediate results and allowing these interactions to naturally evolve into future collaborations.
This Friday, December 13, the two artists will share their past projects and works-in-progress, as well as present the outcomes of their month-long exchange in Salvador. The conversation will be moderated by Pivô’s artistic director, Fernanda Brenner, at 7 PM.
The kitchen will be activated by Tabuleiro das Meninas from 5 PM to 9 PM.
Everyone is welcome! ✨✨✨
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Open Studio
with Gabriel Sierra and Daniel Jorge
Friday | December 13, 2024
5 PM – 9 PM | Open house
7 PM | Conversation moderated by Fernanda Brenner
Kitchen activation by Tabuleiro das Meninas
Rua Boulevard Suíço, 11A, Nazaré – Salvador (BA)
Free entry
Gabriel Sierra (1975, San Juan Nepomuceno; lives in Bogotá). Works with objects, videos, writings, architecture and atmospheric interventions. The physical interaction with things and places that contrast with the human form, exploring how space or the elements within it, and its boundaries, create or affect reality.
His practice relates to specific issues of the present, as the contradictions of language and communication to understand the world in which we live and the microcosm of the perception of art.
His work has been presented at Carnegie International 2013. Pittsburgh, the Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago and the Vienna Secession among others.
Visual Artist, born in Minas Gerais and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Daniel Jorge currently lives and works in Salvador, Bahia.
At the intersection of utopia and pragmatism, Jorge explores the relationships between space, territory, time, occupation, memory, settlement, weight, body, and proportion through a peripheral and diasporic perspective. By revealing essential materials and elements tied to the imagination of civilization and the practices of Afro-diasporic peoples, Jorge constructs new images of identity rooted in belonging and a sense of place.
His thinking and creative process are anchored in fractal geometry and abstraction, materializing in tangible works that span painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and performance. In his material compositions, stone, clay, ore, and repurposed materials emerge as fundamental elements to discuss and critique contemporary “methods” of apartheid.
Daniel Jorge’s work embodies a symbiosis between life and death, ethereal and physical bodies, pragmatism and utopia, abstraction and imagination. His Black body serves as both a compass and a symbol within this uneven cartography, traversing distinct histories from rural landscapes to Brazil’s peripheries and quilombos. It amalgamates the existence of this dissident body, using materials to critique and highlight the calamities of climate change and their impact on Brazil’s peripheral and rural zones. Stretching time between childhood memories and contemporary movements, Daniel Jorge challenges territorial possibilities and redefines existence through each piece of his work.