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The title of this biennial poses a question that points to the tension at the core of contemporary democratic culture: participation in society on the basis of “difference” understood— as Denise Ferreira da Silva puts it — as multiplicity rather than separation. 

It looks as well to the questions Nelly Richard asked in her book Masculino/Femenino (1993) in the context of the democratic transitions in Latin America. Her questions interrogate the social place of the feminine, its constructions and gaps, and the radical departure from exclusive binary logics. These questions are as relevant as ever at a time when feminism is revisiting agendas—and still unmet goals—first formulated in the sixties and voiced again in the nineties, while also responding to a series of pressing issues: growing violence against women and LGBTT+ collectivities; rising poverty and other systems of exclusion and discrimination; and worldviews that imperil the planet’s natural resources.

This biennial attempts to devise a contract of sensibility, a zone to exchange visualities, actions, and affects, and confirm the bounties of democratic life without eliding its complexities.

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Underscores creativity’s ability to push limits and constraints.

It is inspired by the poetic words of Carolina Maria de Jesus, an Afro-Brazilian peasant, poet, and chronicler, who insisted on finding room between paid working and taking care of her children to write. She wrote in the fertile terrain of the Brazilian favela and despite the limitations imposed by (post)colonial racial violence. “Until the rain has stopped” is what she wrote on pages where words and images would create territories of potential freedom. Because the act of writing explores the limits that circumstances impose on language.

 

Writer Clarice Lispector was likely alluding to the conditions surrounding creation when she spoke of the task of making the way through impossibilities: “I cannot write everything I know,” she wrote, while also speaking of the “luxury of silence.” More than the obviousness of the senses, displaced at a time when they have been reduced to commonplace, to flat communication, the biennial’s exhibition layout is geared to careful reading by an interpretative community capable of tackling a complex mesh of sensibilities and discourses that embrace dissent as springboard of argumentation and deliberation. Because, as we know, we must speak and explore different ways of naming things in order to avoid blanket classifications.

Andrea Giunta

Curator

Biennial 12, Porto Alegre

CURATORS

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ANDREA GRACIELA GIUNTA

General Curator

A writer, curator, and professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, where she received her Ph.D. She is a researcher at the CONICET, Argentina, and a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of several books on Latin American art, including Avant-garde, Internationalism and Politics: Argentine Art in the Sixties (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007). In 2018, she published Feminismo y arte latinoamericano: Historias de artistas que emanciparon el cuerpo (Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 2018, and forthcoming in translation by the University of California Press). She was a co-curator of Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 (2017–2018, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Brooklyn Museum, New York, and the Pinacoteca de São Paulo).

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DOROTA MARIA BICZEL

Assistant Curator

(Poland/USA) holds a Ph.D from the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently a visiting assistant professor of art history at the University of Houston. Her research, writing, and curatorial projects focus on contemporary Latin American art seen in the global context, particularly at the intersections of material experimentation, social practice, and politics. She has published articles and essays in academic journals such as Caiana, Buildings & Landscapes, Art Journal, ARARA, and alter/nativas, and in exhibition catalogs. She curated Moving Mountains: Extractive Landscapes of Peru at the UT’s Visual Arts Center (2016) and co-curated Teresa Burga’s Chronology: Reports, Diagrams, Intervals (2011, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart), among other projects.

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FABIANA LOPES

Assistant Curator

A New York- and São Paulo-based independent curator, writer, and Ph.D. candidate in Performance Studies at New York University, where she is a Corrigan Doctoral Fellow. Her research centers on the contemporary production of artists of the African diaspora in Brazil and the Americas in general. Her writings have appeared in Harper’s Bazaar Art, O Menelick 2o Ato, ARTE!Brasileiros, Contemporary And (C&), and in exhibition catalogs such as Rosana Paulino: The Sewing of Memory, Pinacoteca, São Paulo (2018), Lucia Laguna: Neighborhood, MASP, São Paulo (2018), Of Darkness and Of Light, Minnette Vári, Johannesburg (2016), Territories: Artists of African Descent at Pinacoteca’s Collection, Pinacoteca, São Paulo (2015).

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IGOR SIMÕES

Curator of the educational program

A PhD in Visual Arts - Art History, Theory and Criticism from the PPGAV (Graduate Program in Visual Arts) at UFRGS. Assistant professor in the Art History, Theory and Criticism and Art Teaching Methodology and Practice course at UERGS. Member of the curating committee of the National Association of Plastic Art Researchers-ANPAP, and member of the UERGS-MARHS Education Hub. Member of the collection committee at the Rio Grande do Sul Museum of Art-MARGS. He works with articulations between exhibitions, film editing/montage, art history, and the racialization of Brazilian art and the visibility of black individuals in the visual arts world. Author of thesis Film Montage and exhibitions: Black Voices in the White Cube of Brazilian Art. Member of Flume - Education and Visual Arts Research Group. 

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CURADORIA

CURADORIA GERAL

Andrea Graciela Giunta

CURADORES ADJUNTOS

Dorota Maria Biczel

Fabiana Lopes

Igor Moraes Simões 

PRODUÇÃO

DIREÇÃO DE PRODUÇÃO EXECUTIVA
Carina Dias 

COORDENAÇÃO DE PRODUÇÃO EXECUTIVA

Adauany Zimovski

 

SUPERVISÃO

Carolina Grippa

PRODUTORAS

Fernanda Almeida 

Liege Ferreira 

Taís Cardoso 

ASSISTENTES 

Bruna Anele
Isabella Mendonça
Kailã Isaias
Laís Werneck 
Renata Signoretti 

DESIGN DAS EXPOSIÇÕES

Ceres Storchi

Laura Hagel

COLABORAÇÃO

Natan Arend

MONTAGEM 

COORDENAÇÃO

Alexandre Moreira

 

CENOTÉCNICO

FAKE Cenografia

 

PROJETO LUMINOTÉCNICO

André Domingues
Hamilton Leite
Maurício Moura

EQUIPAMENTOS

Images

LOGÍSTICA/TRANSPORTE

FINK Mobility

SEGURO

Affinité Corretora de Seguros

SEGURANÇA DO TRABALHO

Sergio Ussan

PROGRAMA EDUCATIVO

ASSISTENTE E PRODUTOR GERAL

Lucas Vilela Souza

COORDENADORA DE MEDIAÇÃO

Renata Sampaio

PRODUÇÃO

Katiana Ribeiro

PESQUISA DE CONTEÚDO ARTÍSTICO

Cristina Barros

PESQUISA DE MATERIAIS EDUCATIVOS

Carolina Mendoza

CÂMARA DE PROFESSORES

 

TITULARES

Cristina Barros

Ilana Peres Azevedo Machado

Juliana de Lima Veloso

Maria Margarita Santi de Kremer

Natalia Brock Reginato

Raquel Sampaio Alberti

Rejane Reckziegel Ledur

Renan Silva do Espirito Santo

Silvana Taquatia Ribeiro

Walter Karwatzki

SUPLENTES

Celi Teresinha Reinhardt

Claiton Gonçalves da Silva

Débora Stifelmann Sukster

Lenira Costa dos Santos

Mari Lucie da Silva Loreto

COMUNICAÇÃO

ASSESSORIA DE IMPRENSA

Thais Leidens
Liege Heck

REDES SOCIAIS

Thais Leidens
Liege Heck

WEB DESGIN E VÍDEOS

EROICA conteúdo

CRIAÇÃO DO LOGOTIPO DA BIENAL 12

Márcia Valadão

FOTOGRAFIA

Thiéle Wiest

DESIGN

Néktar Design

GESTÃO DE PARCERIAS

COORDENAÇÃO

Roberta Manaa

ASSISTENTE DE MARKETING

Viviane Kuhn

CATÁLOGO

COORDENAÇÃO EDITORIAL

José Francisco Alves

DESIGN GRÁFICO E DIAGRAMAÇÃO

Néktar Design

ADMINISTRAÇÃO

COORDENAÇÃO GERAL

Volmir Luiz Gilioli

FINANCEIRO

Ana Carolina Verdun
Jéssica Tairine Rodrigues
Liverson Renan Quadros Souza
Luisa Schneider

AUDITORIA

Capital Auditores e Consultores Empresariais S/S

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