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Talks
2024

Fotografia por Felipe Beltrame (estudio@felipebeltrame.com).

Talks

April 4th and 5th, from 2 PM to 6 PM

Arena Iguatemi

 

The conversation program of this 20th edition hosted a series of direct encounters with the artists, focusing on their artistic trajectories.

With a light and relaxed tone, the interviews conducted by Carollina Lauriano, Catarina Duncan, and Fernanda Brenner revolved around the main aspects of the invited artists’ work, as well as discuss the challenges of building a career.

The talks took place on Thursday (04/04) and Friday (05/04) at Arena Iguatemi. Check the participants below.

April 4

14h

Catarina Duncan talks with Vik Muniz

 

Vik Muniz (São Paulo, 1961) questions and pushes the boundaries of representation. Appropriating raw materials such as cotton, sugar, chocolate, and even garbage, the artist meticulously composes landscapes, portraits, and iconic images taken from art history and the visual culture imagination of the West, proposing alternative meanings for these materials and the representations created.

Vik Muniz. Photo: Marco Anelli
Vik Muniz. Photo: Marco Anelli

April 4

15h

Fernanda Brenner talks with Paula

SiebraPaula Siebra (Fortaleza, 1998) focuses on images related to everyday life, working with still lifes, portraits, and landscapes. Reminiscences of the oil painting tradition are a fundamental aspect of her work, also influenced by local techniques from her place of birth, such as the sand bottle art.

Paula Siebra. Foto: Divulgação
Paula Siebra. Photo: Press Release

April 4

16h

Maria Prata conversa com André Namitala

André Namitala created Handred in 2012, driven by his passion for haute couture workshops and the creation of classic designs with an extended range of sizes. His collections are inspired by Brazilian culture and art. The designer has collaborated with artists and institutions such as Francisco Brennand, Vivian Caccuri, and Instituto Sergio Rodrigues.

André Namitala. Foto: Divulgação
André Namitala. Foto: Press Release

April 4

17h

Fernanda Brenner talks with

Yuli Yamagata

 

Yuli Yamagata (São Paulo, 1989) essentially works with sewing and uses ordinary fabrics found in haberdasheries and popular stores to build her visual universe. The artist’s padded volumes and plush materials, as well as the synthetic and intense colors she employs, make her corporeal images and prosthetic limbs project beyond the frame, occupying the surrounding space with a hyperbolic and fragmented plastic configuration reminiscent of comics and manga.

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April 4

18h

Carollina Lauriano talks with

Gervane de Paula

 

Gervane de Paula (Mato Grosso, 1961) is the only Black artist to be part of the “Geração 80” (Generation 80), a Brazilian artistic movement that emerged from an exhibition held in 1984 at Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro. His work appropriates references from mass, popular, and religious culture.  During the conversation, a monographic book about the artist’s work will be launched.

After the talk, the artist launches the publication “Gervane de Paula, Critical Anthology,” by Carolina Marcório and William Gama.

Gervane de Paula. Foto: Divulgação
Gervane de Paula. Photo: Press Release

April 5

14h

Catarina Duncan talks with

Adriana Varejão

 

The work of Adriana Varejão (Rio de Janeiro, 1964) is openly political and constantly proposes a dialogue with Brazil’s colonial and post-colonial history. Drawing from a cultural repertoire ranging from Brazilian Baroque to eighteenth-century travel literature, the artist leverages a confluence of ideas to reflect on the mythical pluralism of Brazilian identity.

Adriana Varejao. Foto: Tinko Czetwertynski
Adriana Varejao. Foto: Tinko Czetwertynski

April 5

15h

Carollina Lauriano talks with Vinicius Gerheim

 

Vinicius Gerheim’s production (Minas Gerais, 1992) touches on intersections between sexuality and faith in the field of childhood memory and its multifaceted narratives. In his works, he materializes images stemming from the desire to transform lost sensations into languages. For him, being an LGBTQIAP+ person allowed him, from the beginning, to rethink patterns, norms, and codes that constrained his body.

Vinicius Gerheim. Foto: Divulgação
Vinicius Gerheim. Photo: Press Release

April 5

16h

Carollina Lauriano talks with

Igi Lola Ayedun

 

Igi Lola Ayedun is a multimedia artist and gallerist who works with painting, video, 3D digital sculpture, photography, and sound. She is the founding director of HOA, an organization dedicated to a decolonial perspective of Latin American contemporary art and focused on artists from the global majority. Her artistic practice is guided by the cultural and biological potential of colors.

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April 5

17h

Catarina Duncan talks with

Lidia Lisbôa

 

Lidia Lisbôa’s artistic practice (Paraná, 1970) is fundamentally centered on autobiography and the daily intersections that are articulated in various languages, with a focus on drawing, sculpture, crochet, and performance.

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April 5

18h

Catarina Duncan talks with Tiago Sant’Ana

 

Tiago Sant’Ana (Bahia, 1990) is a visual artist, curator, and Ph.D. in Culture and Society from the Federal University of Bahia. His works deal with processes of fabulation and the production of history and memory, especially those linked to narratives around Afro-diasporic identities. Sant’Ana combines an appreciation for aesthetic investigation in different artistic languages, such as photography, video, and painting, with a more conceptual, speculative, and political exercise.

After the conversation, the artist and the publisher Act. promote the launch of the book “Art at the Table – Dialogues between Art and Food in Latin America.”

Tiago Sant'Ana. Photo: Thiele Elissa
Tiago Sant'Ana. Photo: Thiele Elissa