Invited by artist Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, the Brazilian band Rakta composed the original soundtrack for the film Oriana, which lends its title to the artist’s first solo exhibition in Brazil, on view at Pivô until November 6, 2021.

Modular and climatic, of expanded dynamics and with a strong expression of materiality, the music works as a kind of narrative thread for the work, which is distributed by screens scattered throughout Pivô’s space, as a single audiovisual installation. At the opening of the exhibition, on September 5, Rakta performed live music based on the film’s soundtrack, in an improvised and continuous performance of six hours. Responding to the fragmented structure of the film and the exhibition space itself, the band performed distributed in different points, exploring the peculiar acoustics provided by Pivô’s architecture.

The photographer Ivi Maiga Bugrimenko documented the performance. Obsessively during the last five years, Ivi Maiga has been documenting the movement of underground São Paulo, carrying her cameras from party to party, or holed up in apartments where people never sleep – until the pandemic left everything in suspension.

Rakta’s performance was part of the public program Respiração, which is co-sponsored by Beck’s. Oriana is a co-organization of Pivô with Fundação Bienal de São Paulo and is part of the network of the 34th Bienal . Beatriz Santiago Muñoz is also part of the 34th Bienal de São Paulo, which can be visited for free at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, in Ibirapuera Park, from September 4th to December 5th, 2021.