it’sThoughdark, still I sing 34th Bienal de São Paulo Traveling exhibitions program LuísSãoLuísSãoLuísSãoCasa do Maranhão and Centro Cultural Vale April 12 – June 12, 2022 List of works
Casa do Maranhão – São Luís, MA Statement The Portraits of Frederick Douglass, 1841-1895 Fine art print in poster format 60 × 40 cm 68 portraits of the approximately 160 carried out in Frederick Douglass’ lifetime were collected and Theprintedphotographs printed in the exhibitions of the 34th Bienal are from the collections: Greg French; Onondaga Historical Association; Albert Cook Myers Collection / Chester County Historical Society; Moorland-Spingarn Research Center / Howard University; National Portrait Gallery / Smithsonian Institution; The Art Institute of Chicago; John Chester Buttre; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Clements Library / University of Michigan; New York Historical Society; University of New Mexico Art Museum; National Park Service; Swann Auction Galleries; Massachusetts Historical Society; Hillsdale College; Special Collections / Lavery Library / St. John Fisher College; Lynn Museum and Historical Society / Hutchinson Family Singers Album; Virginia Historical Society; Connecticut Historical Society; R. R. Auction; Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cornell University; Boston Athenaeum; Kansas State Historical Society; American Antiquarian Society; Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History; Cincinnati History Library and Archives; Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; Kansas State Historical Society; Anacostia Community Museum Archives / Smithsonian Institution; Monroe County Public Library / State Archives of Florida; Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture; John White Hurn; Rochester Public Library; Chicago History Museum; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Mississippi Department of Archives and History and Manuscript Library; Augustus Robin; Anna Roelofs; Tuskegee University; Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute and New Bedford Whaling Museum
Alice Shintani Menas, 2015-2021 Gouache and embroidery on paper boxes of food and cleaning products dimensions variable Artist’s collection Arjan ComplexoMartinsAtlântico (Oceano), 2021 Atlantic Complex (Ocean) Acrylic on canvas 275 × 765 Commissionedcm by Fundação Bienal de São Paulo for the 34th Bienal Daniel de Paula circulação, 2019 circulation Artist’s30’49’’Video-negociationcollection Deana Lawson Untitled (working title), 2018 HD video, color, sound 12’ Artist’sloop collection Frida Orupabo Participation in the 34th Bienal supported by: Nordic Culture Fund and Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) Untitled, 2018 Framed pigment prints on acid free semigloss cotton paper (exhibition copy) 116 × 174 × 5cm Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm AB Untitled, 2019 Fine art print on cotton paper (exhibition copy) 225 × 170 cm Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm AB Neo Muyanga Participation in the 34th Bienal supported by: British Council and Institut français à Paris A Maze in Grace, 2020 Pigment print on paper Dimensions variable A Maze in Grace XIII, 2020 HD Commissioned30’46’’video by Fundação Bienal de São Paulo for the 34th Bienal in partnership with the Liverpool ConceivedBiennial and photographed by Neo Muyanga; featuring: chorus: Legítima Defesa; soprano: Tina Mene; animations: Bianca Turner & Neo; collage photographs: Cristina Maranhão / Christiano Jr.; sound mix: Dave Langemann & Neo; recorded at: Bienal Pavilion, São Paulo (February 2020) & studio KwaCha, Cape Town (June 2020) Artist's collection A Maze in Grace, 2021 Publication
Noa Eshkol Participation in the 34th Bienal supported by: Artis and the Consulado Geral de Israel em São Paulo Insects in the Sun, 1990 Cotton, synthetic fiber, lurex, rayon 278 × 216 Courtesy:cmThe Noa Eshkol Foundation for Movement Notation, Holon, Israel and neugerriemschneider, Berlin Symmetric Flora, 1995 Cotton, cotton-linen, cotton twill, cotton crepe, cotton corduroy, polyester 225 × 173 Courtesy:cmThe Noa Eshkol Foundation for Movement Notation, Holon, Israel and neugerriemschneider, Berlin Wonderful Summer That Noa Missed With Birds, c. 1990 Wool, cotton, silk, cellulose 291 × 187 Courtesy:cmThe Noa Eshkol Foundation for Movement Notation, Holon, Israel and neugerriemschneider, Berlin Tony Cokes Evil.27: Selma, 2011 HD video Courtesy9’ of the artist, Greene Naftali, New York, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles and Electronic Arts Intermix, New York
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Cultural Vale – São Luís, MA Statement The Portraits of Frederick Douglass, 1841-1895 Fine art print in poster format 60 × 40 cm 40 portraits of the approximately 160 carried out in Frederick Douglass’ lifetime were collected and printed The photographs printed
Centro in the of the 34th Bienal from the collections: Greg French; Onondaga Historical Association; Albert Cook Myers Collection / Chester County Historical Society; Moorland-Spingarn Research Center / Howard University; National Portrait Gallery / Smithsonian Institution; The Art Institute of Chicago; John Chester Buttre; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Clements Library / University of Michigan; New York Historical Society; University of New Mexico Art Museum; National Park Service; Swann Auction Galleries; Massachusetts Historical Society; Hillsdale College; Special Collections / Lavery Library / St. John Fisher College; Lynn Museum and Historical Society / Hutchinson Family Singers Album; Virginia Historical Society; Connecticut Historical Society; R. R. Auction; Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cornell University; Boston Athenaeum; Kansas State Historical Society; American Antiquarian Society; Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History; Cincinnati History Library and Archives; Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; Kansas State Historical Society; Anacostia Community Museum Archives / Smithsonian Institution; Monroe County Public Library / State Archives of Florida; Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture; John White Hurn; Rochester Public Library; Chicago History Museum; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Mississippi Department of Archives and History and Manuscript Library; Augustus Robin; Anna Roelofs; Tuskegee University; Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute and New Bedford Whaling Museum
exhibitions
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz El cuervo, la yegua y la fosa, 2021 The crow, the mare, and the pit Commissioned16’Video by Fundação Bienal de São Paulo for the 34th Bienal Daiara Tukano Kahtiri Ēõrõ – Espelho da vida, 2020 Mirror of Life Silk feathers and mirror Frida Orupabo Participation in the 34th Bienal supported by: Nordic Culture Fund and Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) Untitled, 2021 158Collage×110 cm Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm AB Gustavo Caboco and Lucilene Wapichana Extensão Wapichana, 2019 Wapichana Extension Embroidery on fabric, 638 × 85 cm Jaider Esbell Carta ao velho mundo, 2021 Letter to the Old World Book and digitized printed book 37,5 × 27,7 cm (each) Artist’s collection Paulo Kapela Untitled, 2007 Graphite on paper 63 × 77 cm Private collection Untitled, 2008 Mixed media 72 × 53 cm Private collection Untitled, 2009 Mixed media 58 × 31 cm Private collection Untitled, 2010 Mixed media 56 × 76 cm Private collection Untitled, 2010 Mixed media 55 × Private41,5collection Paulo Nazareth Corte seco – Tereza de Banguela, 2021 Dry cut – Tereza de Banguela Sculpture on painted sheet metal and MDF 600 × 495 Commissionedcm by Fundação Bienal de São Paulo for the 34th Bienal
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Artist’s50Photograph×89cmcollection Elementar (A última Floresta – Terra pelada), 2018 Elemental (The Last Forest – Naked land)
Artist’s52Photograph×78cmcollection (Forest’s
River)
Artist’s100Photograph×74cmcollection Quase Mortos (Boiuna) Elemental (Boiuna)
Elementar
, 2019
Artist’s45Photograph×72cmcollection Elementar (A última floresta) Uýra Sodoma, 2019 Elemental (The Last Forest) Uýra Sodoma
Artist’s79Photograph×120cmcollection (Rio Negro) (Negro
Elementar (Chão da mata), 2018 Elemental
Artist’s73Photograph×110cmcollection Elementar (A última Floresta – Terra pelada), 2018 Elemental (The Last Forest – Naked land)
Artist’s60Photograph×90cmcollection
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, 2018 Elemental
VovóUýraCobra, 2021 Grandma Snake Photographic installation composed by works from the series Elementar and Mil Quase Mortos Commissioned by Fundação Bienal de São Paulo for the 34th Bienal: Elementar (A Flora d’Água), 2017 Elemental (The Water Flora) Artist’s29Photograph×45cmcollection Elementar (A última Floresta), 2017 Elemental (The Last Forest) Artist’s41Photograph×75cmcollection Mil Quase Mortos (caos), 2018 One Thousand Almost Dead (chaos) Artist’s63Photograph×90cmcollection Mil Quase Mortos (Boiuna), 2019 One Thousand Almost Dead (Boiuna) Artist’s65Photograph×107cmcollection Mil Quase Mortos (caos), 2018 One Thousand Almost Dead (chaos) Artist’s50Photograph×75cmcollection Mil Quase Mortos (Boiuna) 1, 2019 One Thousand Almost Dead (Boiuna 1)
Elementar (A última Floresta – Fogo), 2017 Elemental (The Last Forest – Fire) Artist’s60Photograph×90cmcollection Elementar (A última Floresta), 2017 Elemental (The Last Forest) Artist’s41Photograph×62cmcollection Victor Anicet Participation in the 34th Bienal supported by: Institut français à Paris and Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication – DAC Martinique Caldèras, 2013/2019 Artist’sØCeramic25cmcollection Caldèras, 2013/2019 Artist’sØCeramic25cmcollection Caldèras, 2013/2021 Artist’sØCeramic27cmcollection Vision du vaincu, 2018 View of the defeated 35Ceramic×50× 10 cm