Português4th edition of Pivô Satellite presents: Visita Guiada [Guided tour]
Visita Guiada [Guided tour] is the title of the fourth edition of the program Pivô Satélite, which debuts on February 24 with a work by artist Gabriel Junqueira. The project is curated by the platform aarea.co and it brings proposals by Pedro Victor Brandão, Júlia Rocha, and Gabriel Massan. Each artist will occupy the platform with monthly individual proposals.
The digital platform Pivô Satellite is a project room within Pivô’s website. The program, created in 2020, was originally conceived by emerging artists and curators invited by the institution and included artistic proposals conceived especially for the virtual environment.
In 2022, rather than inviting independent curators to program an edition of the Pivô Satellite, we will invite institutionsbased in Latin America that, similarly to Pivô, foster and disclose the emerging contemporary artistic production in the region. Under this new format, we aim to enhance the possibilities for the exchange and circulation of Brazilian artistic production and broaden the dialogue with neighboring countries. The first guest of 2022 is the curatorial platform aarea.co, founded in 2017 by the curators Livia Benedetti and Marcela Vieira. The platform commissions and exhibits artworks designed especially for the virtual environment.
In Visita Guiada [Guided tour], the artists are invited to create correspondences between the virtual space and the physical space of the Pivô. The artist Gabriel Junqueira has conceived, based on the blueprint, a 3D model of Pivô’s first exhibition floor. This model will be a stage for experimental insertions by the other artists in the show. In a moment of great profusion of Online Viewing Rooms and of the idea of Metaverse, the curators instigates the spectator to think about the specificities of digital space and the limits of its architectural and lexical correspondence with real space. In the words of the curators: “(…) this first stage of visualization of the Metaverse still presents itself as a replica of the world we inhabit, architecturally based and optimized for consumption operations. We witness, without much agency or technical understanding about the unfolding of this device, a projection of the future designed for the maintenance and development of current technocapitalism”
Gabriel Junqueira’s project operates as a ‘floor’ and ‘wall’ for the intervention of the other artists: Júlia Rocha plays with the materiality of words and their occupation in digital space; Pedro Victor Brandão presents, in these false walls, an NFT in constant mutation; and Gabriel Massan, who installs, in the digital exhibition space, a set of sculptures. Parallel to the exhibition period of the works at Pivô Satélite, the artists will perform interventions in the physical space of the institution, in dialogue with the projects of the site.
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Gabriel Junqueira – February 24 to March 22, 2022
Pedro Victor Brandão – March 23rd to April 24th, 2022
Júlia Rocha – April 25th to May 25th, 2022
Gabriel Massan – May 26 to June 27, 2022
All artworks included in Pivô Satellite #4 – June 28 to July 28, 2022
About Pivô Satellite
Since 2020, Pivô Satellite platform has presented works by artists selected by three young Brazilian curators. Each curator has indicated four artists to occupy this digital project room with individual proposals for one month. Diane Lima signed the curatorship that inaugurated the platform, Os dias antes da quebra [The Days Before the Crash], with proposals by Rebeca Carapiá, biarritzzz, Diego Araúja, and Ana Raylander Martís dos Anjos. Victor Gorgulho conceived the second show, entitled O Assombro dos Trópicos [The Haunting of the Tropics], and gathered Anarca Filmes, Diambe da Silva, Rafael Bqueer, and the duo David Pontes and Wallace Ferreira. Raphael Fonseca curated the third edition, entitled Sexo, Mentiras e Videotape [Sex, Lies and Videotape], with projects by Laura Fraiz, Eduardo Montelli, Ventura Profana, and the anonymous Instagram profile New Memeseum.
Pivô Satellite aims to contribute to the creation of a support network for the Brazilian artistic community in this dire moment. The artists will be granted a commissioning fee, be accompanied by the invited curator and rely on Pivô’s production and communication structure and its team to develop the content to be displayed by Pivô Satellite. The projects will have an experimental character and may take on various formats and durations, with no restrictions as to the type of media or theme.
The collaborators of this program were invited according to criteria that take into account the relevance and quality of their artistic research, in addition to the diversity of identities present in Brazil – of gender, ethnic-racial, regionality, social and cultural context. By consolidating this program, Pivô hopes to bring together a consistent and diverse group of new active voices in the Brazilian art scene, at a pressing moment in our history.
To enable the program, Pivô brought together, in collaboration with the supporters of the institution Georgiana Rothier, Bernardo Faria and Ticiana Terpins Strozenberg, a special group of patrons who generously supported the program’s first year, among them: Antônia Bergamin, Antônia de Sá Cavalcante Borges, Camila Yunes Guarita, Camilla Barella, Catherine Petitgas, Coleção Coletiva, Denise Terpins, Fabiana Sonder, Felipe Dmab, Fernando Marques Oliveira, Frances Reynolds, Heloísa Genish, Iris Kaufmann, Liana Becker, Lívia Debbane e Thiago Gomide, Maria do Mar Guinle, Mariana Clayton, Paula Macedo Weiss e Daniel Weiss, Simone Coscarelli Parma e Alejandro Parma, Susana e Ricardo Steinbruch e Thais Manata.
About the Artists
Gabriel Junqueira (Fortaleza, Ceará, 1992) is a multimedia artist who explores the relationships between body, technology and materiality in supports such as digital images, sculptures and installations. His recent research revolves around the relationship between built spaces and nature through the creation of landscapes in 3D architectural visualization software, commonly used in the real estate market to simulate structures to be built. Seeking inspiration from corporate architecture and landscaping concepts, the artist creates impossible locations, where figurative elements are rearranged to abstraction. As an extension of his research in visual arts, since 2018 he has been dedicated to the musical project “Naves Cilíndricas”. In 2020, he released two albums: “Imagens de Desastres Em Alta Resolution” by the Meia Vida label and “Névoa” by the Domina label.
Gabriel Massan (Nilópolis, Rio de Janeiro, 1996) is a mixed format digital artist. Combining storytelling and world-building techniques, he discusses the relations of power and inequality in life performances inside the virtual space. His work includes 3D animation, digital painting, single-player games, virtual and augmented reality, and has been widely distributed in NFT.
Júlia Rocha (1989, São Paulo, SP) combines, in her artistic process, dance, writing and performance. In 2014 she started É selo de língua, through which she experiments with textual and sound editions, with Gustavo Galo. She graduated in Communication of the Body Arts, PUC-SP and is currently taking her master’s degree in Visual Poetics at ECA-USP.
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 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), “Desvios na Paisagem” in Portas Vilaseca Gallery (Rio de Janeiro), “Tela Preparada”, in Sé gallery (São Paulo), among others. He has participated in group shows such as “Vivemos na melhor cidade da América do Sul”, in Iberê Camargo Foundation (Porto Alegre), “DURA LEX, SED LEX”, in Centro Cultural Parque de España (Rosario) and “Estudos sobre o mercadismo”, in Casa Tomada (São Paulo).
About aarea.co
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.
About Pivô
Founded in 2012, Pivô is an autonomous art space that offers a platform for artistic experimentation and critical thinking by artists, curators, researchers and the general public. The program consists of exhibitions, residencies, public lectures and publications by local and international artists. To this day, the institution hosted over 150 residencies. Recent commissioning includes artists Katinka Bock, Eduardo Navarro, Erika Verzutti, Mário Garcia Torres, Letícia Ramos, Rodrigo Hernandez and the “imannam” group show by Anna Maria Maiolino, Ana Linnemann and Laura Lima. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Pivô suspended all public activities based at its headquarters, in the Copan building. Part of the program was adapted to the digital environment, such as its residency program, Pivô Research, conducted remotely.