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The digital platform Pivô Satellite functions as a project room within Pivô’s website. Designed by artists and curators invited by the institution, its program comprises artistic proposals in different formats, created especially for digital media. In the coming months, starting on July 24, the platform will present works by 12 artists selected by 3 young Brazilian curators. Each curator will choose four artists to occupy this digital project room with monthly individual proposals.

Independent curator, critic and researcher Diane Lima is the first guest of the project. Her proposal, entitled Os dias antes da quebra (The days before the crash), is an exhibition that suggests a move back to what was being predicted, speculated and denounced before the pandemic, by a group of racialized and dissident artists with extensive experience in postponing the eminence of their own breaks. The first artist chosen to occupy Pivô Satellite, on July 24, is Rebeca Carapiá with the project “Para-raios para energias confusas” (Lightning rods for confusing energies), an installation composed of sculptures, video and PDF file. Relating 3D modeling, iron and copper, the installation simulates in its performance an assembly guide as a strategy of collective emancipation and spirituality. In the coming months biarritzzz, Diego Araúja and Raylander Martís dos Anjos will occupy the digital platform.

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 with 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 Satélite. 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, having only to respect the current social distancing requirements.

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: Alan Terpins, Antônia Bergamin, Antônia de Sá Cavalcante Borges, Camila Yunes Guarita, Catherine Petitgas, Coleção Coletiva, Denise Terpins, Fabiana Sonder, Fabiano Al Makul, Felipe Dmab, Frances Reynolds, Heloisa Genish, Iris Kaufmann, Maria do Mar Guinle, Mariana Clayton, Monica Bouqvar, Paula Macedo Weiss e Daniel Weiss, Simone Coscarelli Parma e Alejandro Parma, Susana e Ricardo Steinbruch.