PRO HELVETIA

To raise awareness of Swiss culture around the world, Pro Helvetia forges ties with local event organisers, develops and nurtures longterm partnerships, initiates co-productions with artists from the regions concerned, and organises residencies. Sacatar began its collaboration with Pro Helvetia, a department of the Swiss government, in 2019.

I’ve been working with Sabrina Fernandez Casas and twenty external collaborators on a book that traces our experiences during the last eight years of practice. I accomplished the written part of this publication and will continue with the set-up of graphics and the production of printing.

The experience in this context helped us to read our context differently, to take distance and analyze several aspects of our practice, which is mostly site specific. We developed a hybrid practice which we can see in the cultural practices of syncretism in Bahia, a very inspiring subject.

I worked on a new publication with Patricio Gil Flood. This new book traces our experiences as the collective, MACACO Press, after eight years of practice and collaborations with artists, curators, and art spaces. The work will continue in the urban context of São Paulo with research into different modes of production and printing.

In parallel, and as personal work, I experimented with ceramics and artisanal techniques from Maragojipinho (ed: a village of ceramic artisans south of Itaparica). From the culture of Bahia, I particularly enjoyed the vernacular, the ancestral knowledge, and syncretism. It is very inspiring.

In partnership with Pro Helvetia

In partnership with Pro Helvetia