Opening of Pivô Satélite #8 brings together artists and curators for a public conversation at Pivô Copan

On June 23 (Tuesday), starting at 6pm, Pivô opens the eighth edition of Pivô Satélite at the Pivô Copan storefront and on the Satélite platform, featuring works by seven artists across a total of five videos, one sound piece and one visual installation. As part of the opening program, at 7pm, Pivô welcomes researcher Ana Roman and artists Denise Agassi and Juno B for the conversation “Moving Image as a Research Methodology” with Satélite curator Pedro Azevedo. Admission is free.

The conversation will present reflections on alternative modes of creating and exhibiting moving images, exploring the intersections between video, sound, performance and digital art investigated by the artists selected for this edition of Pivô Satélite. The event discusses artistic practice and curatorial work as methodologies for research in contemporary art, addressing possibilities for experimentation and the transposition of audiovisual practices across different formats, while reflecting on strategies for occupying both physical and virtual spaces developed through the Pivô Copan storefront and the online platform.

Part of Pivô’s 15th anniversary celebrations, Satélite #8 is curated by Pedro Azevedo and Noelia Portela and is presented in partnership with Persona Curada, a Paris-based itinerant Latin American contemporary art organization. The exhibition runs until August 2, with visiting hours from Wednesday to Saturday, 1pm–7pm, and Sundays and holidays, 12pm–6pm.

In this edition, Satélite presents the following works:

Persona
Liv Schulman
16’58’’ | Argentina | 2021

Performed by the artist herself, the work is a metalinguistic audiovisual fiction layered with editing, animation and special effects. In a visually psychedelic narrative marked by absurd humor, the protagonist wanders through an art gallery while preparing to shoot a feature film about a giant sexual worm. As the story unfolds, both the space and her own body begin to blur and disintegrate.

Eyes of plants
Patricia Dominguez
24’54’’ | Chile | 2019

Set in the Atacama Desert, the video unfolds as a sensory immersion with a ritualistic atmosphere, created through digital ultraprocessing techniques, filters and visual effects. At the threshold between myth, ancestry and technology, the work presents a performance mediated by technological tools, offering a provocative reflection on the connection between all human and non-human beings and their ancestors throughout history.

Case 0 – Disputed Zone
Juno B
7’ | Brazil | 2021

Developed through research on the territorial dispute along the border between Ceará and Piauí, the film speculates on images of experimental migrations, simultaneous existences and anomalous landscapes. This fracture and power struggle, originating in the colonial period, is reactivated through the promise of the Transnordestina railway and remains in a constant state of survival, transformation and adaptation.

Ori de Cobra is Railway
Maya Quilolo
7’40’’ | Brazil | 2021

Maya Quilolo opens this experimental video performance with the statement: The world ended when the earth-digging monsters exploded its reptilian magma womb. Composed of archival images that evoke both past and present forms of colonial violence against the land, the work is haunted by the appearance of the artist, who narrates and overlays her own body onto the screen.

Time Capsule
Denise Agassi
27’14’’ | Brazil | 2021

Like a guided meditation led by the artist’s voice, the work proposes an experience of networked breathing based on conscious engagement with flows of information and memory, encouraging the creation of mental images. Through a time capsule, participants are invited to establish sensitive connections between the cosmos of networks and the multiple layers of the body.

Doors
Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino
2’41’’ | Brazil | 2022

Composed across three sound channels, the work reverberates Celestino’s mental landscape surrounding dependency, institutional fragility, lack of reparation, collective memory, trauma, and cultural and artistic tendencies of the 2000s, appropriating the lyrics of Bring Me to Life, the classic song by Evanescence.
The work was commissioned by Expedition, Liste Art Fair Basel’s online program, as part of the project As We Leave the Window Open, and received the Ducato Prize 2023.

Pinocchia tales
R. Moreno
Photographic installation | Colombia | 2024

The sculptures in Pinocchia investigate debt as a multidimensional condition — economic, social and symbolic. Through feminized reinterpretations of figures such as Pinocchio and Frankenstein, and drawing from everyday environments and consumer goods, the works examine how systems of obligation structure interpersonal relations and shape bodily experience within urban public space.

About Pivô Satélite

Held since 2020, Pivô Satélite is a digital platform dedicated to creation and experimentation in the field of moving images, conceived as a space for research, curating and the production of audiovisual works designed for both online and physical environments. More than a distribution channel, Satélite functions as a laboratory for formats, languages and modes of circulation in contemporary audiovisual practices, connecting artists and audiences in Brazil and abroad while expanding possibilities for access and visibility.