Abertura das exposições ‘de montanhas submarinas o fogo faz ilhas’ e 'É NOITE NA AMÉRICA'

From September 3rd, Pivô receives two new exhibitions: de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas [from underwater mountains fire makes islands], a group show, curated by Yina Jiménez Suriel and ‘É NOITE NA AMÉRICA’, a solo show by Ana Vaz, curated by Fernanda Brenner.

The first exhibition is the result of an investigation into the aesthetic tools created by communities that thought and desired freedom from outside the western imagination. The exhibition integrates a curatorial research project that Yina Jiménez Suriel began in 2019 around the possibilities of expanding human subjectivities and producing other imaginaries from changes in the perceptual system. The works – performances, sculptural installations, photographs and videos – are placed in relation from “islands”, in which the emancipatory potential of materials, actions and ideas is explored.

Two activities will also take place on the opening day: the happening Muamba Grove #series 3_5 (2020), by Vanessa da Silva; and Variation & Improvisation for ‘In Harmonia Progressio’ (2017), by Duto Hardono. In the first, the sculpture, which is also an instrument to induce movement, is coupled to the body of a performer, who responds to it.  In the second action [Variation & Improvisation for ‘In Harmonia Progressio’ (2017)], the concepts of improvisation and variation are explored. Using the voice, the performers make random changes in intonation, pitch and amplitude while pronouncing ‘in’, ‘harmonia’, ‘progressio’. These variations, along with their movements in space, allow the audience to perceive the various possibilities for improvisation and transformation that come from the collective.

The exhibition is co-presented by Pivô and KADIST, as part of a collaboration that included support from KADIST for which Yina Jiménez Suriel supported the curatorial research and visits to artists’ studios in Brazil during the month of January 2022.

The second exhibition on show at Pivô, É NOITE NA AMÉRICA, artist Ana Vaz’s first solo show in Brazil, brings, in addition to other works, an installation version of the homonymous film, directed by the artist, shown at the Locarno festival in 2022, and which received a special mention in the Pardo Verde, an award dedicated to films with an environmental theme.

An eco-terror tale freely inspired by the reading of the book A cosmopolítica dos animais, by Brazilian philosopher Juliana Fausto, ‘É NOITE NA AMÉRICA’ follows the paths and detours of wild animals, fugitives from the destruction of the Brazilian savannah in the middle of modern Brasília. In this book, adapted from her doctoral thesis, Juliana Fausto investigates, from a philosophical point of view, the political life of non-human beings and questions the idea of the exceptionality of the human species. After reading the book, Juliana Fausto and Ana Vaz started a dialogue and an exchange of correspondence – part of it was, in 2021, published in Pivô Magazine #2.

Shot entirely on reels of expired 16mm film and with the cinematographic technique of the American night (day by night), the film narrates the grim plot of the arrival and survival of this fleeing fauna in search of refuge on a “planet with many refugees and few refuges”, in Juliana Fausto’s words quoting Donna Haraway.

As a soundtrack, Vaz uses the composition Panthera Onca by Guilherme Vaz, his father, multimedia artist and composer. In the film, the spectator is provoked to reflect the visible and subjective effects of colonialism on different bodies, territories and species. In an experimental and non-linear approach, we witness stories and experiences such as that of Macau, a giant otter born in Dortmund in Germany and transferred to Brasilia zoo in order to “repopulate the land of its ancestors”, in the artist’s words.

The installation ‘IT’S NIGHT IN AMERICA’ is a commission and production by Fondazione In Between Art Film, with co-production by Ana Vaz, Spectre Productions and Pivô with additional support from Jeu de Paume, Paris.

Service:

‘de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas’ [from underwater mountains fire

makes islands] and ‘It’s Night in America’

Exhibition Period: 03/09/2022 to 06/11/2022

Wednesday to Sunday, from 13h to 19h

Opening: 03/09/2022, at 1pm

Free Entry