1000º
October 3, 2024–January 26, 2025
Curatorship: Germano Dushá, Thiago de Paula Souza and Ariana Nuala
The Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo announces the list of artists that will join the 38th Panorama of Brazilian Art: 1000º, a biennial and fundamental project in the history of MAM, which will be presented between October 2024 and January 2025.
The curators Germano Dushá, Thiago de Paula Souza and Ariana Nuala, adjunct curator who has just joined the curatorial team, present a selection of 34 artists, from 16 Brazilian states, composed of Adriano Amaral (São Paulo), Advânio Lessa (Minas Gerais), Ana Clara Tito (Rio de Janeiro), Antonio Tarsis (Bahia), Davi Pontes (Rio de Janeiro), Dona Romana (TO), Frederico Filippi (São Paulo), Gabriel Massan (Rio de Janeiro), Ivan Campos (Acre), Jayme Fygura (Bahia), Jonas Van & Juno B. (Ceará), José Adário dos Santos (Bahia), Joseca Mokahesi Yanomami (Roraima), Labō (Pará) & Rafaela Kennedy (AM), Laís Amaral (Rio de Janeiro), Lucas Arruda (São Paulo), Marcus Deusdedit (Minas Gerais), Maria Lira Marques (Minas Gerais), Marina Woisky (São Paulo), Marlene Costa de Almeida (Paraíba), Melissa de Oliveira (Rio de Janeiro), Mestre Nado (Pernambuco), MEXA (São Paulo), Noara Quintana (Santa Catarina), Paulo Nimer Pjota (São Paulo), Paulo Pires (Mato Grosso), Rafael RG (São Paulo), Rebeca Carapiá (Bahia), Rop Cateh—Alma pintada em Terra de Encantaria dos Akroá Gamella (Maranhão)—in collaboration with Gê Viana (Maranhão) and Thiago Martins de Melo (Maranhão), Sallisa Rosa (Goiás), Solange Pessoa (Minas Gerais), Tropa do Gurilouko (Rio de Janeiro), Zahy Tentehar (Maranhão) and Zimar (Maranhão).
The process of creating this list began about a year ago and, along the way, the curators sought to compose a group of artists that was plural and intersectional.
The composition of this group brings together artists from different generations, with participants born in the 1940s to others born in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The diversity of media derived from this artistic body is a final reflection of the plurality that guided the project’s design: there are artists who work with organic materials and traditional media, some with spontaneous practices linked to traditional knowledge and others more connected to academic training. Added to this group are artists who experiment with new media, technologies that are unconventional to the artistic circuit, digital resources and images, industrial equipment and artificial materials. Among the key reasons behind this group of artists’ work are matters such as spirituality, the notion of expanded ecology, the paradoxes of technology, the eroticism of the flows of energy and bodies through cities.
1000º (Mil graus/ A thousand degrees)
The title chosen by the curators of this 38th edition is based on a colloquial expression that can take on multiple meanings depending on the context, but which invariably works as an index of high intensity. In a presentation text about the project, the curatorship says that “as a motto, the idea of a temperature opposite to absolute zero, an insurmountable maximum temperature, the incidence of which results in total molecular agitation, that is, capable of melting any existing matter, serves as a point of imagination to think about contexts with a high rate of environmental variation and situations involving combustion processes, electricity and friction. In this sense, the project is guided by an interest in formulations linked to experimentation, intense risk, radical situations, extreme conditions through heat—metaphysical, metaphorical and climatic—and the states—of soul and matter—that put us in the face of transmutation as an inevitable and immediate destiny”.
Panorama of Brazilian Art at MAM São Paulo
The Panorama of Brazilian Art series of exhibitions began in 1969 and coincided with the establishment of MAM São Paulo at its headquarters in the Ibirapuera Park marquee. The first editions of the Panorama left a lasting impact on the history of the museum as it contributed directly and effectively to the formation of its contemporary art collection. Throughout the 37 exhibitions already held, MAM’s Panorama sought to establish productive dialogues with different concepts of Brazilian artistic production, our history, culture and society. Held every two years, it always brings up new reflections on the most urgent debates in contemporary Brazil.
