Images of Sameness: From the Banal to the Radical
In my column for Revista Zum, I highlight radical artistic projects emerging from the sameness and banality of the overproduction of images on Instagram and social networks. I discuss…
Writing
Immersive Art to Expand the Senses
This week I discuss two immersive art exhibitions on view in São Paulo. I begin with A Biblioteca à Noite, a virtual reality installation at Sesc Paulista that takes visitors to ten great…
We Must Occupy the Memes
My column is now online on ZUM magazine’s website, and the topic is memes!In this article, I discuss the leading role memes play in political disputes and their transformation into a kind…
Douglas Gordon Turns Video into Painting and Vice Versa
I visited the video installation Îles flottantes (If Monet Met Cézanne, in Montfavet), at Instituto Moreira Salles, by Scottish artist Douglas Gordon (1966), who also has an exhibition at…
Odiolândia on the Cover of O Tempo
Odiolândia was the cover story of Belo Horizonte newspaper O Tempo’s magazine in its Sunday, April 1 edition.In an extensive interview with journalist Carlos Andrei Siquara, we discussed…
Sex, Truths and Apps
In my debut column for Revista ZUM, I discuss The Men Behind the Wall, by Argentine-born Israeli filmmaker Inés Moldavsky. Winner of the best short film award at this year’s Berlin…
Deserto Rosso at Turbulent Landscapes
Deserto Rosso (2016) is now on display at the exhibition Turbulent Landscapes, curated by Jeff Chabot, at Modified Arts Gallery (Phoenix, Arizona, June 16–July 8).Here is the curator's…
Perturbadoramente Familiar
I am launching Perturbadoramente Familiar, an artist's book resulting from my trip to Poland and the project Quanto Pesa uma Nuvem?, at SP-Arte with Galeria Mezanino, and at Galpão VB. The…
Deserto Rosso
This previously unseen series references the film of the same name by Michelangelo Antonioni, one of Giselle Beiguelman’s main aesthetic influences. Taken at a municipal storage facility in…
Aesthetics of Code: From Urban Writing to Premediated Images (Class 4 — AUH5862)
In this class, we start from urban writing to discuss the coding processes we interact with every day.Among other issues, we highlight:— The growing opacity of coding mechanisms and their…