Statement
Tikmũ’ũn Songs
Installation with audios of the Tikmũ’ũn ritual songs, 9 books and transcriptions and translations of the songs.
The songs Piabinha, Cabeça branca, Você aguenta, Cabeça vermelha e Tié-preto envergonhado were recorded with the community of women, men and Yãmĩyxop from Pradinho in the Maxakali Indigenous Land (Bertópolis-MG), in October 2003.
Song Recording, Editing and Mastering: Leonardo Pires Rosse Editing Assistant: Eduardo Pires Rosse. Research Coordinator: Rosângela Pereira de Tugny.
The songs Sobrinho, Papa-mel and Beija-flor were recorded with the community of women, men and Yãmĩyxop from Água Boa in the Maxakali Indigenous Land (Santa Helena de Minas-MG), in October 2003.
Song Recording, Editing and Mastering: Leonardo Pires Rosse Editing Assistant: Eduardo Pires Rosse. Research Coordinator: Rosângela Pereira de Tugny.
The approach to the Tikmũ‘ũn songs was only possible due to multiple conversations with: Charles Bicalho, Isael Maxacali, Paula Berbert, Roberto Romero and Sueli Maxacali, whom the curators of the 34th Bienal de São Paulo are thankful to.
Adrián Balseca
Participation in the 34th Bienal supported by: PCAI
– Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative
BadYear, 2020-2021
Natural rubber, metal clips Dimensions variable
Commissioned by Fundação Bienal de São Paulo for the 34th Bienal
Alfredo Jaar
Participation in the 34th Bienal supported by: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio – Gobierno de Chile
Chiaroscuro, 2021
Printed ink on paper
90 × 60 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
Alice Shintani
Mata (series), 2019-2021
Forest / Kill
Gouache on paper 18 pieces, 75 × 55 cm (each) and one diptych (150 × 55 cm)
Commissioned by Fundação Bienal de São Paulo for the 34th Bienal
Frida Orupabo
Participation in the 34th Bienal supported by: Nordic Culture Fund and Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA)
Untitled, 2018
Video installation
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm AB
Untitled, 2020
Collage with paper pins mounted on aluminium 89 × 20 × 40 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm AB
Untitled, 2020
Collage with paper pins mounted on aluminium, 43 × 25 × 30 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm AB
Untitled, 2020
Collage with paper pins mounted on aluminium 70 × 63 × 30 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm AB
Untitled, 2021 Collage
97 × 117 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm AB
Untitled, 2021 Collage
79 × 171 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm AB
Untitled, 2021 Collage
2 pieces, 69 × 112 cm (each)
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm AB Gala Porras-Kim
Leaving the Institution through cremation is easier than as a result of a deaccession policy, 2021
Printed ink on paper, ashes on napkin Commissioned by Fundação Bienal de São Paulo for the 34th Bienal
Whistling and Language Transfiguration (WaLT), 2012
LP album, cyanotype print, sound 30,5 × 30,5 cm
Artist’s collection
Courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles
Gustavo Caboco and Lucilene Wapichana
Extensão Wapichana, 2021
Wapichana Extension Embroidery on fabric Artist collection
Commissioned by Fundação Bienal de São Paulo for the 34th Bienal
Hanni Kamaly
Participation in the 34th Bienal supported by: Nordic Culture Fund, Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) and Iaspis – the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Program for Visual and Applied Artists
HeadHandEye, 2017-18
Video 17’45”
Courtesy of the artist
Jaider Esbell
Carta ao velho mundo, 2021
Letter to the Old World Book and digitised printed book 37,5 × 27,7 cm (each)
Artist’s collection
Joan Jonas
Wind, 1968
16 mm film transferred into video, b&w, silent 5’37”
Courtesy: Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York
León Ferrari
Palabras Ajenas: León Ferrari Y la Retórica en Tiempos de Guerra, 2017
Words of Others: León Ferrari and the Rhetoric in Times of War Video, color 46’16”
A project conceived for the Pacific Standard Time: LA / LA (2012-2017), with the initiative and support by the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles, CA. Special thanks to Fundação Augusto y León Ferrari, Buenos Aires and Leopoldo Maler
Palabras ajenas. Conversaciones de Dios con algunos hombres y de algunos hombres con algunos hombres y con Dios
Facsimile of the 1967 original edition Published by Licopodio, Buenos Aires, 2008
Photographs and flyer: Staging of Operativo Pacem in Terris, 1972
Operation: Pacem in Terris
Adaptation of Palabras ajenas [The Words of Others] by León Ferrari, directed by Pedro Asquini at the Teatro Larrañaga in Buenos Aires. Archives of Adriana Banti and Horacio Paoletta, Buenos Aires.
Script and voice assignments for the reading of Palabras ajenas at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, MNCARS, Madrid, 2018
The Words of Others (Palabras ajenas), 2017
English version published by X Artists’ Books, Los Angeles, CA
Published to accompany Leon Ferrari’s exhibition at REDCAT, Los Angeles. Published by JRP/Ringier, 2017
Noa Eshkol
Participation in the 34th Bienal supported by: Artis and the Consulado Geral de Israel em São Paulo
Heavy Soil Fields, 1980
Wool, cotton, rayon 300 × 196 cm
The Noa Eshkol Foundation for Movement Notation, Holon, Israel and neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Leaves on Tiles, 1979
Wool, cotton, viscose 220 × 136 cm
The Noa Eshkol Foundation for Movement Notation, Holon, Israel and neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Musical Carpet – Fugue, 1978
Cotton and synthetic fibers
225 × 149 cm
The Noa Eshkol Foundation for Movement Notation, Holon, Israel and neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Sunset at Edom Mountains, 1989
Wool, cotton, cotton-linen, cotton crepe, percale, bark crepe, calico 231 × 248 cm
The Noa Eshkol Foundation for Movement Notation, Holon, Israel and neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Sunset by the Lake, 1995
Wool, cotton, corduroy, silk, polyamide, polyester 254 × 221 cm
The Noa Eshkol Foundation for Movement Notation, Holon, Israel and neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Tree With Sparrows, 1982
Wool, cotton, polymers, rayon
224 × 117 cm
The Noa Eshkol Foundation for Movement Notation, Holon, Israel and neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Wild Tree II, 1989
Cotton and stretch cotton jersey 260 × 205 cm
The Noa Eshkol Foundation for Movement Notation, Holon, Israel and neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Seba Calfuqueo
Participation in the 34th Bienal supported by: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio – Gobierno de Chile
Tantas veces apümngeiñ, 2016
So many times apümngeiñ
Installation: resin, mud and video 6’28”
Private collection Victor Anicet
Participation in the 34th Bienal supported by: Institut français à Paris and Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication – DAC Martinique
Accouplement, 2017
Coupling
Enamelled lava plate 52 × 43 × 1 cm
Bambou, 2017 Bamboo Ceramic 45 × 25 × 10 cm
Bonbon Chouval, 2010 Horse biscuit Ceramic 15 × 15 cm
Chaos Monde, 2003
Chaos world
Enamelled lava plate 50 × 50 × 2 cm
Chaos Monde, 2003
Chaos world
Enamelled lava plate
50 × 50 × 2 cm
Chaos Monde, 2013
Chaos world
Ceramic and lava plate
42 × 45 × 5 cm
Coui, 2015
Ceramic
23 × 42 cm
Grêve, 2010 Strike
Ceramic
50 × 50 cm
Les Marrons, 2017
The maroons
Enamelled lava plate
50 × 43 × 1 cm
Présence de l’Est multiple, 2000
East multiple presence
Enamelled lava plate
50 × 50 × 3 cm
Présence de l’Est Multiple, 2000
East multiple presence
Enamelled lava plate
12 x 20 x 2 cm
Sans titre, 2019
Untitled
Ceramic
30 × 40 × 5 cm