Southern Panoramas competitive show announces ten winning works and four honorable mentions
The 18th Festival Grand Prize winner was the performance Samba do Crioulo Doido by Luiz de Abreu. As stated by the curator Cristiana Tejo at a ceremony held yesterday, November 10, 2013, the fact that this piece has won “not only reiterates the institution’s transition from an exclusive focus on video to an expanded conception of art, it also fundamentally celebrates and champions an artwork we regard as possessing extreme urgency, both in regard to form—how art can address the audience in a radical, captivating, memorable way—and content—a content which speaks of both a local and a global context.”
The piece has been acknowledged for the ingenious way in which it tackles racial discrimination by focusing on the black human body. The artist uses elements invariably associated with black people in Brazil—samba, Carnival, and eroticism—in a disturbing manner, beginning by assuming a certain conformity or acceptance of said condition, but gradually becoming increasingly ironic and confrontational. In addition to Luiz de Abreu, who will receive a prize in the (gross) value of 70,000 Brazilian reals, ten residency prizes and four honorable mentions have been awarded to other artists. The award jury comprised the curators Cristiana Tejo (Brazil), Koyo Kouoh (Cameroon), Pablo Lafuente (Spain), Yolanda Wood Pujols (Cuba) and Rifky Effendy (Indonesia).
See below the full list of 18th Festival Southern Panoramas competitive show winners:
Grand Prize
Luiz de Abreu (Brazil)
Samba do Crioulo Doido, 2004, performance
Artist residency prizes
Resartis residency prize
at the A-I-R Laboratory, Warsaw, Poland
Ali Cherri (Lebanon)
Pipe Dreams, 2012, video installation
Sesc_Videobrasil residency prize
at Raw Material Company, Dakar, Senegal
Ayrson Heráclito (Brazil)
Funfun, 2012, video installation
Sesc_Videobrasil residency prize
at the Sacatar Institute, Salvador, Brazil
Bakary Diallo (Mali)
Tomo, 2012, video
Sesc_Videobrasil residency prize
at Askal Awan, Beirut, Lebanon
Basir Mahmood (Pakistan)
My Father, 2010, video
Wexner residency prize
at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA
Gabriel Mascaro (Brazil)
Doméstica, 2012, video
Resartis residency prize
at the Arquetopia, Oaxaca, Mexico
Laura Huertas Millan (Colombia)
Journey to a Land Otherwise Known, 2011, video
FAAP residency prize
at the Lutetia Building, São Paulo, Brazil
LucFosther Diop (Cameroon)
We Are One, 2010, video
China Art Foundation residency prize
No Red Gate, Beijing, China
Nurit Sharett (Israel)
The Sun Glows Over the Mountains, 2012, video
ICCo – Institute for Contemporary Culture residency prize
No Residency Unlimited, New York, USA
Virgínia de Medeiros (Brazil)
Sergio e Simone, 2010, video
Honorable mentions
Caetano Dias (Brazil)
Rabeca, 2013, video
Enrique Ramirez (Chile)
Brisas, 2008, video
Marcellvs L. (Brazil)
9493, 2011, video installation
Sherman Ong (Malaysia)
Motherland, 2011, video installation
18th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil
Undertaking:
Sesc São Paulo
Associação Cultural Videobrasil
Cultural support:
China Art Foundation, ICCo – Instituto de Cultura Contemporânea, Resartis, FAAP Artist Residency, Wexner Center for the Arts, Mondriaan Fonds, Arts Victoria, Consulate General of the Republic of Lithuania in São Paulo, Goethe-Institut, Embassy of Mexico in Brazil / Consulate General of Mexico in São Paulo, Consulate General of France in São Paulo, Norwegian Film Institute / Office for Contemporary Art Norway, WRO Art Center, Fundação Padre Anchieta – TV Cultura
