Southern Panoramas
October 4, 2017–January 14, 2018
The award ceremony of the 20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil was held on the evening of October 8. Besides the traditional five artist residency awards, the Festival gave out to participating artists three acquisition awards for video works, a special prize money award and an honorary mention.
View here the award winners of the 20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil
The awards, which aim to acknowledge and encourage the development of artists that produce compelling work and forcefully convey their viewpoints from the Global south, were granted by the jury formed by guest curators and representatives of the residency programs.
In the words of Lisette Lagnado, chair of the award jury: “At the 20th edition of the Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil, Brazil’s political scene invaded the curators’ discussions about the exhibited works, whose high quality made assigning the awards an even harder task. It’s worth mentioning that this is the first time the residency partners have worked together with the Festival’s award jury. This list therefore demanded hours of heated debate among nine members hailing from different contexts.”
Besides Lagnado, the other jury members were Marina Fokidis (Greece), Pablo León de la Barra (Mexico), Salah M. Hassan (Sudan/USA), Ika Sienkiewicz-Nowacka (Greece/Poland), Jennifer Lange (USA), Katharina von Ruckteschell-Katte (Germany), Mami Katsuya (Japan) and Catarina Duncan (Brazil).
The trophy sculpture for this edition was created by the Brazilian artist Flávia Ribeiro, conceived as a bronze bird encased in velvet. The reduced dimensions, the gold and the velvet evoke a small and subtly precious gesture, which the artist relates to the generosity present in both the work of art and the gaze that welcomes, distinguishes and rewards.
With 50 artists from 25 countries in the global South, the 20th Festival displays over 70 works between two- and three-dimensional exhibits, video installations, performances, video programs, open lectures, meetings and talks with artists and curators, spanning various venues at Sesc Pompeia, in São Paulo, through January 14, 2018.
Featuring the themes Cosmovisions, Ecologies, Reinvention of Culture, Politics of Resistance, Invisible Histories and Other Modernisms as core concepts, this edition was curated by Ana Pato, Beatriz Lemos, Diego Matos and João Laia, as guest curators, and Solange O. Farkas, as chief curator.
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