Starting July 5, 2022, Sesc (Serviço Social do Comércio) will make available on its digital platform the web series Sem Título—Conversas no Acervo Sesc de Arte (Untitled—Conversations in the Sesc Art Collection) produced by the SescTV team under the direction of Thais Guisasola. Made especially for the digital medium, the web series will present to the public, free of charge, ten thematic episodes that show part of Sesc São Paulo’s collection of visual art.
The institutional collection includes more than 2,500 works of modern, contemporary and popular art by Brazilian artists from different generations, constituting an important overview of the art produced in Brazil over the last century. Most of the artworks are on permanent display in Sesc’s regional units and therefore accessible to the general public, free of charge. Part of an extensive project that allows the public to enter into direct contact with artworks, the pieces in the collection are also frequently shown in temporary exhibitions, thus enriching their readings and interpretations as they are placed into relationships with other works.
The episodes presented in the web series concern 20 artworks selected on the basis of themes related to culture as a lived experience. In each of the ten episodes—titled “Fabulations and Cosmologies,” “Movement,” “Resistances,” “Food,” “Light,” “Music,” “Soccer,” “Words,” “Identity” and “Ancestrality, Possible Bodies”—two guests respond to the question: What does this work inspire in you?
The participants in the web series are professionals from different areas invited to present their perspective on the selected artworks. They include activists such as Katú Mirim, Preta Ferreira and Tifanny Abreu, writers such as Daniel Munduruku and Kiusam de Oliveira, and musicians such as Antônio Nóbrega, João Gordo and André Abujamra, as well as personalities from a wide range of other fields including art, philosophy, journalism, and communication. Their statements provide a surprising, broad and free ranging view of the Sesc Art Collection.
The artists represented in the selection include Abraham Palatinik, Anna Bella Geiger, Anna Maria Maiolino, Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin De Burca, Carmézia Emiliano, Carmela Gross, Claudia Andujar, Eduardo Coimbra, Felipe Barbosa, José Paulo Oliveira, Lenora de Barros, Mestre Molina, Nelson Leirner, Regina Silveira, Rubens Gerchman, Sidney Amaral, Tatiana Blass, Toninho Guimarães, and Vicente de Melo.
Released in 2020, during the most critical phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Sesc online platform transposes Sesc São Paulo’s actions into the digital language and environment, thus expanding the reach of its cultural action and diffusion programs, lending them new facets while strengthening the institution’s commitment to a participative, continuous and inclusive educational process.
