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EXCLUSION, ART AND THE PLACE OF SPEECH ENGLISH VERSION

In the show’s opening, the artist Gustavo Speridião surprised surrounding him, such as the Cuban Reyner Leiva Novo. On a
the public with a singer performing, a cappella, the hymn The huge wall, he shows hundreds of used toothbrushes, which he
Communist International, in a pertinent criticism to the precarious exchanged for new ones with residents of Sorocaba, writing an
situation of today’s workers. Meanwhile, Panmela Castro, author intimate, local history.
of the graffiti that enraged a city counselor for considering it The American collective Guerrilla Girls, in turn, speaks in behalf of
pornographic, was preparing herself to present the performance a new feminist consciousness that denounces women’s segregation
Femme Maison, a warning about the unjust role of women in society. inside the art system, dominated by men. In fact, what they criticize
Scattered around the venue, a performatic group threw photos of is that few things have changed in the man/woman relationship
politicians with the label “golpista” [con man] like confetti. Despite in the art scene, which insists on repeating, dissimulating, the
its petite size, Frestas has personality, with sharp points that tear conservative behavior of the market of earlier decades. The
the smooth surface and the gray everyday life of the city. collective also brings the Department of Complaints, presented
The concept of a participative, collaborative and dematerializing last year at London’s Tate Modern. A huge blackboard with chalk
art spreads around many places in which some artworks are is available for visitors to leave their own protests. The group
ephemeral. The graffiti artist Nunca, by “tattooing” Brazilian maintains its anonymity and only performs in gorilla masks,
Indians on the side of a building downtown, transforms his work in attitudes of domination, threat, mockery, a response to the
in a warning against the extinction of a people on the verge of restricted, arid and domesticated universe of art.
disappearance. The conclusion is left to Yango Hernandéz, the young and
In terms of communication, Frestas comprises a mosaical visual internationally renowned Cuban artist who, in a simple and
cultural, replacing linear culture, opening up to the unknown to powerful installation, perfects the engineering of the political
find the new, but balancing emerging artists with the complex image. A chair with only three legs balances on a “stage.” The torn-
junctions of already established names. out piece spins around itself, inside a circle of cut-out wood. This
Raul Mourão, for instance, attempts to exteriorize and interiorize is a fractured, fragile and common object, which moves through
human presence in his powerful installation made with grids and time and memory and can refer us to the economic, political, social
swings. With the title Passagem, the installation is open to the and intellectual imbalance of the entire planet.
public’s participation, as if confirming the idea that freedom cannot Already contemplating its third edition, Frestas Trienal de Artes
be simulated, as Rirkrit Tiravanija claims. This work suggests de Sorocaba could be inspired by the Lyon Biennale which, in
inexhaustible uses of the body and its behavioral effects. its first editions went out on its own to later contaminate other
The confluence of the efforts of artists from different regions, important institutions in the city.
whose works are conducted almost at the same time, stresses
the idea that exhibitions of this nature are indeed experimental 1 | WORK PART OF DANIEL SENISE’S SERIES SOROCABANA (2017)
laboratories. Daniel Senise, exponent of Geração 80, revives
part of the city’s period, with photos from the old cafeteria of 2 | DO WOMEN HAVE TO NAKED TO GET INTO THE MET. MUSEUM? (1989-2017),
the Sorocabana Railway, pride of the country in the past. Over GUERRILLA GIRLS
beautiful images, he incorporates and fixates objects and residues
taken from the place itself, dissolving the subject and sparking 3 | PASSAGEM (2010), INSTALLATION BY RAUL MOURÃO
a revolting remembrance of the dismantling of Brazil’s railways.
Maria Thereza Alves’s intervention Vazio Pleno finds in Sorocaba 4 | CHARLES HOVLAND PHOTOGRAPHED AROUND 3,000 PEOPLE IN PORNOGRAPHIC
a reason to reveal the city’s indigenous presence, a contribution POSES THAT RESULTED IN APPROXIMATELY 450,000 PHOTOS
in the field of anthropology, showing fifteen replicas of a native
urn found in a city museum. By burying the copies in several Frestas-Trienal de Artes [Cracks - Arts Triennial]
spots in Sorocaba, she shifts the discussion on the condition Through 12/3
of indigenous peoples from a protected field onto the streets, Sesc Sorocaba
sparking a broader reflection. R. Barão de Piratininga, 555, Sorocaba
Frestas features unique works and the effort to create a show on an
open, uncensored field is its major accomplishment. Dias & Riedweg PRIZE MARCANTONIO VILAÇA | PAGES 32 TO 35
went deep to unearth an original work, Esperando um Cliente, a
the collection of the American photographer Charles Hovland JAIME LAURIANO AND
paradigm of the underground universe. A video installation about
him through an advertisement published in newspapers in New THE DEMYSTIFICATION
shows the sexual fantasies of over 3,000 people that answered
York between 1970 and 1980.
Violence has given way to many works, and it seems viewers are OF RACIAL DEMOCRACY
attracted by well-defined categories, with a provoking sense, such
as the work of the Mexican artist and medical examiner Teresa ONE OF THE WINNERS OF THE MARCANTONIO VILAÇA PRIZE, THE
Margolles, which contributes with a collection of jewelry in 18-carat ARTIST CREATES WORKS WITH NEW PERSPECTIVES OF HISTORY
gold made from bullet shrapnel or glass removed from bodies of
victims of the war on drug traffic in her country. BY MARIANA TESSITORE
Under a foreign gaze, that of the German Michael Wesely, the
images captured in the demonstrations, both for and against the RULING OVER NEW TERRITORIES. According to Jaime Lauriano,
impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, projected on the wall, become this is the strategy so that “more and more blacks occupy spaces
a platform for polemic in face of which some visitors clench their they were denied before.” The artist, by the way, has been very
teeth, while others just smile. The artist seems to be asking what successful at this endeavor. With his pleasant manners and
is the real cause of divergence between left and right in Brazil. Or politicized opinions, Lauriano infiltrated the contemporary art
what is not its verbal importance, but its real one? bubble. In this semester alone, he participates in exhibitions at
Sometimes man is put in direct relation with the environment important institutions such as Sesc 24 de Maio, Itaú Cultural and

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