CURATORSHIP
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
CRÉDITOS: LEONARDO VERAS, EBC TV BRASIL
Solange Farkas (Feira de Santana, Bahia, 1955)
With four decades of professional activity in the cultural field, Solange Farkas was Chief Curator of the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia. She participated as a guest curator of FUSO (Portugal), Dak'Art – African Contemporary Art Biennale (Senegal), the 6th Jakarta International Video Festival (Indonesia), the 10th Sharja Biennial (United Arab Emirates), the 16th Cerveira International Art Biennial (Portugal) and the 5th Video Zone - International Video Art Biennial (Israel). The founder and director of Associação Cultural Videobrasil, Farkas has taken up the role of artistic director of the festival and biennial Sesc_Videobrasil since its first edition in 1983, investing in the growth of its collection and in the creation of a wide network of institutional partners on all five continents . In recent years, she has been a member of the Prize Jury of the 14th Sharjah Biennial (2019), the Prince Claus Fund Award Prize Committee (2017–2018), the jury of the 10th Rencontres de Bamako - African Photography Biennial (Mali, 2015), the curators’ selection committee for the 11th Berlin Biennale (2020) and helped organize the "Anthropocene Project" exhibition at the Ilmin Museum of Art (Korea, 2019). She is a member of the jury committee of Amsterdam’s EYE Art & Film Prize, and of Pivô’s consulting board, in São Paulo. In 2017, she was the recipient of the Montblanc Arts Patronage Award, a prize from the German foundation granted to professionals with an outstanding career dedicated to supporting and developing the many artistic and cultural expressions.
GUEST CURATORS
CRÉDITOS: PEDRO NAPOLITANO PRATA
Gabriel Bogossian (Rio de Janeiro, 1983) is deputy curator of Associação Cultural Videobrasil since 2016 and independent editor and translator. Since 2015 he has researched the representation of indigenous peoples in Brazil, integrating the production of images of contemporary art, journalism, and social movements. Bogossian curated the exhibitions Nada levarei quando morrer, aqueles que me devem cobrarei no inferno (Galpão VB, São Paulo, 2017), O museu inexistente n.1 (Funarte, São Paulo, 2017), project developed with the artist Victor Leguy, Tomorrow Everything will be Alright (Galpão VB, São Paulo, 2016), solo show by Akram Zaatari, Cruzeiro do Sul (Paço das Artes, São Paulo, 2015), and Transperformance 3: Corpo estranho (Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, 2014), with Luisa Duarte. He contributes to Traço, Artelogie and BRAVO! magazines, and translated into Portuguese Americanism and Fordism, by Antonio Gramsci (Editora Hedra, 2008), and the novel Quiet Chaos, by Sandro Veronese (Editora Rocco, 2007), among others.
CRÉDITOS: LEONARDO VERAS, EBC TV BRASIL
Luisa Duarte (Rio de Janeiro, 1979) is an art critic, independent curator, and professor. She holds a master’s degree in philosophy from the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-SP) and a PhD in art theory from the Rio de Janeiro State University. Duarte was art critic at O Globo newspaper between 2009 and 2017 and a member of the Advisory Council of MAM-SP (2009–2012). She was a member of the curatorial team of the Rumos Artes Visuais/Itaú Cultural program (2005–2006) and coordinated the cycle of conferences A Bienal de São Paulo e o meio artístico brasileiro – Memória e projeção (28th Bienal de São Paulo, 2008). She coedited with Adriano Pedrosa the book ABC – Arte brasileira contemporânea (Cosac & Naify, 2014) and was curator of the exhibition Quarta-feira de cinzas (Parque Lage School of Visual Arts, 2015), co-organizer with Pedro Duarte of the Walter Benjamin Library International Conference (MAR – Museu de Arte do Rio de Janeiro, 2016), and curator of the exhibition Tunga – O rigor da distração (MAR, 2018).
CRÉDITOS: LEONARDO VERAS, EBC TV BRASIL
Miguel A. López (Lima, Peru, 1983) is a writer, researcher, codirector and chief curator of TEOR/éTica in San José, Costa Rica, and cofounder of Bisagra, an independent venue in Lima, active since 2014. In the past decades, López has researched cooperative dynamics and feminist reinterpretations of art and culture. He has published articles in magazines such as Afterall, ramona, E-flux Journal, and Art in America, among others. He was curator of exhibitions such as Energías sociales/fuerzas vitales, Natalia Iguiñiz: arte, activismo, feminismo 1993–2018 (ICPNA, Lima, 2018), The Words of Others: León Ferrari and Rhetoric in Times of War (REDCAT, Los Angeles, and Perez Art Museum, Miami, 2017–2018), and of the section Deus é bicha of the 31st Bienal de São Paulo (2014). He edited the book Robar la historia. Contrarrelatos y prácticas artísticas de oposición (Metales Pesados, 2017). In 2016, he received the Independent Vision Curatorial Award from Independent Curators International (ICI, New York).