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EXCLUSION, ART AND THE PLACE OF SPEECH ENGLISH VERSION

EDITORIAL | PAGE 8
WAYS OF OVERCOMING EXCLUSION

BY PATRICIA ROUSSEAUX, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
JAIME LAURIANO, one of the winning artists of the Marcantonio Vilaça Prize, tells his story
to Mariana Tessitore, the story of a young black Brazilian man: “I lived with my mother at
an uncle’s house, where he didn’t charge for rent. She worked very hard. The most present
image I hold from this period is of her being always exhausted”...” All I wanted was to get out
of that situation. And for that there were two ways out: study or crime.” Lauriano began to
visit museums and one day he saw a work by Artur Barrio, Livro de Carne [Flesh Book], which
left a deep mark in him. He decided to study art. He got in contact with artists and theorists.
He attended the Belas Artes college and today, fifteen years later, he is an established artist
who uses his work to tell the story of slavery in Brazil, among other topics. Far from being
melodramatic, this story confirms that art is a mediator of the symptom of social malady.
As recalls the curator Michelle Sommer, who together with Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro are
responsible, in Madrid, for the exhibition about Mário Pedrosa, one of the leading Brazilian
art critics and intellectuals – read the article on page 40 –, “Pedrosa devoted his efforts
in formulating ideas on the social function of art throughout his intellectual production ...
Pedrosa holds a libertarian social aspiration that aspires to a revolution of sensibility for the
revolution of men, in an experimental, open way, structured from the fluidity of communicating
vessels between art and politics, connected to a plural future,”
This issue is marked by the presence of art, both in Brazil and throughout the world, as a
vehicle for expressing the repetition of violence against differences and how much racial
hatred is part of agendas worldwide.
Biennials, the documenta 14 in Kassel and Athens, the show The Restless Land in Milan,
Frestas in Sesc, all of these exhibitions sing in unison the issue of man’s struggle for the
defense of territories, against blindness in the face of the other, of the different.
Producing these cries are not the solution, but undoubtedly help to weave a space for
freedom and of unique beauty, like Francis Alys’s installation Don’t cross the Bridge Before
You Get to the River (2008), in which the artist created, in a collaboration with children from
Tangier, Morocco, and Tarifa, in Spain – the two sides of the Strait of Gibraltar, the channel
separating Africa and Europe by only thirteen kilometers at its shortest spot – boats made
of plastic sandals with the intent of building a human bridge between the two continents,
an action more about hope than reality, in the words of Fabio Cypriano.
CONTENTS | PAGE 9
12 AROUND
ISTANBUL BIENNALE, ART WEEK, IRAN DO ESPÍRITO SANTO IN NY AND OTHER NEWS
14 DOCUMENTA KASSEL
EXHIBITION OCCUPIES SEVERAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE GERMAN CITY WITH POLITICALLY-FOCUSED WORKS
20 INTERVIEW
CREATOR OF THE MAGAZINE SOUTH AS A STATE OF MIND, MARINA FOKIDIS
DISCUSSES HER LEGACY FOR DOCUMENTA
22 SKULPTUR PROJEKTE MÜNSTER
CONDUCTED EVERY TEN YEARS, EXHIBIT SHOWCASES 35 PROJECTS,
MOSTLY RELATED TO THE LOCAL CULTURE
26 TRIENALLE
DEPARTING FROM THE THEME OF POST-TRUTH, EXHIBITION SHOWCASES ART PRODUCTIONS IN SOROCABA
32 MARCANTONIO VILAÇA AWARD
WITH POLITICALLY-FOCUSED WORKS, THE ARTIST JAIME LAURIANO PROPOSES
NEW VERSIONS TO HISTORY

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
36 LA TERRA INQUIETA
SHOW IN VENICE SHOWCASES ARTISTS AND PHOTOJOURNALISTS
IN DEFENSE OF REFUGEES
40 MARIO PEDROSA
LEGACY OF ONE OF THE GREATEST CRITICS IN BRAZIL IS SHOWCASED
AT THE REINA SOFÍA, IN MADRID

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