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Pivô Salvador and Grupo Ecoarte invite the public to a special fulldome video screening at the UFBA Planetarium, presenting an immersive experience focused on the Barra Marine Park and marine research in Antarctica.
Following the screening, there will be a conversation moderated by Prof. Karla Brunet (IHAC/UFBA), with the participation of artists Alberta Whittle and Lícida Vidal, current residents at Pivô Salvador as part of the projects Litoral do Limite / The Ocean’s Edge and Instabilidades Costeiras, in dialogue with members of the Fundo da Folia project.
Admission is free. Tickets must be reserved via Sympla.
Join us to explore the challenges and beauties of our oceans and to contribute to the conversation between art and science.
Litoral do Limite / The Ocean’s Edge is part of an international project carried out by Pivô (Brazil) and Invisible Dust (United Kingdom), in partnership with TBA21–Academy, with support from the Guimarães Rosa Institute and the British Council, within the framework of the UK–Brazil Year of Culture 2025–26.
Exploring the Seas: Marine Park and Antarctica
Fulldome video screening and open conversation
January 27 (Tuesday)
6:30pm–7:30pm
UFBA Planetarium
Av. Milton Santos, 485 – Ondina UFBA, Salvador, Bahia
Karla Brunet is an artist and researcher. She holds a PhD in Audiovisual Communication from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, supported by a CAPES fellowship, and a master’s degree in Visual Arts from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, also with a CAPES fellowship.
She has participated in photography and art exhibitions in Brazil, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. From 2009 to 2011, she coordinated Labdebug.net, a media lab focused on women and free technologies. In 2012, she curated FACMIL/LabMAM, a media art laboratory at the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia. In 2014 and 2015, she conducted postdoctoral research at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 2020 and 2021, she was a visiting researcher at LaboLuz at the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain, and at Medialab at the Federal University of Goiás, with support from a CAPES Print fellowship.
She is currently a professor at the Institute of Humanities, Arts and Sciences, ProfArtes, and the Graduate Program in Visual Arts at the Federal University of Bahia, where she coordinates Ecoarte, an interdisciplinary group dedicated to art, technology, and environmental issues.
Her artistic practice encompasses photography, video art, data visualization, sensory environments, hybrid art, audiovisual performance, web art, artistic mapping, science communication, and games, with a focus on experiences in nature.
Alberta Whittle (Bridgetown, Barbados) is an artist who lives and works in Glasgow. She studied Fine Art at Edinburgh College of Art and completed her master’s degree at the Glasgow School of Art in 2011. In 2024, she received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh and is currently a Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Her exhibition history includes solo presentations at Nicola Vassell, New York (2025); Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute (2024); Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2024, with Dominique White); Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2023); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2023); Holburne Museum, Bath (2023); Scotland + Venice, 59th Venice Biennale (2022); University of Johannesburg Gallery (2021); Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh (2021); Glasgow International (2021); Grand Union, Birmingham (2020); and Dundee Contemporary Arts (2019).
Selected group exhibitions include Soulscapes (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 2024); Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance (The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 2023); Soft and weak like water (14th Gwangju Biennale, 2023); British Art Show 9 (2021–2022); Moving Bodies, Moving Images (Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2022); Black Melancholia (CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, 2022); Sex Ecologies (Kunsthall Trondheim, 2021); and Life between islands: Caribbean British Art 1950s – Now (Tate Britain, London, 2021).
Whittle has received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award (2022), Turner Bursary (2020), Frieze Artist Award (2020), Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award (2020), and Margaret Tait Award (2018–2019).
Her work is held in institutional collections including the Advanced Research Centre at the University of Glasgow, Arts Council Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, The Contemporary Art Research Collection at Edinburgh College of Art, Glasgow Museums Collection, Government Art Collection, The McManus (Dundee), National Galleries of Scotland, and the University of St Andrews.
Licida Vidal is a visual artist who lives and works in Ubatuba, São Paulo. She studied Social Sciences at the University of São Paulo (USP). Through performative actions, photography, video, and installations, her research engages with questions of gender and nature within the context of climate emergencies. This circle of subalternized forms of knowledge, intimate experiences, and academic research is translated in her work into a search for strategies to restore autonomy to bodies and territories. Clay and water are her main materials, carrying a strong symbolic charge within this debate on interdependence, scale, territories, diversity, and coexistence amid the collapse of the fossil fuel era.
She is a member of the Vozes Agudas Collective, in collaboration with Ateliê397. In 2020, she undertook a residency at Usina de Arte (PE). In 2021, she participated in the exhibition Dizer Não, organized by Ateliê397; in 2022, in the exhibition Estamos Aqui at Sesc Pinheiros. In 2023, she completed a residency at Usina Luis Maluf and participated in the exhibition Zonas de Sombras at the Pinacoteca de São Bernardo do Campo. In 2024, she took part in the Respiro Rural Residency and presented her solo exhibition Oceano Febril at Galeria Luis Maluf, as well as participating in the 14th 3M Art Exhibition – Biomorfos, at Parque da Luz.