ARTBO 2017

In this edition, the Brazilian curator Kiki Mazzucchelli presents Against Forgetting”, a sample of 15 projects by contemporary artists represented by galleries from eight countries, which through their works reflect themes related to democracy and civil liberties.

In “Against Forgetting”, Mazzucchelli explores how societies that promised a more egalitarian and inclusive, today they are being questioned by hate speech and division in the world. The curator starts from recent events to exemplify the emergence of
populisms, characterized by a challenge to human rights. The works included in “Against Forgetting” are not restricted to any geographical space, period historical or specific medium, it brings together everything from intervened archival images to installations in which a wide range of unconventional materials are explored. Thus, the selected works manifest symbolic or historical narratives and ways of knowing that play a role important in the integration of communities and the creation of spaces of freedom. mazzucchelli states that “in their own context, all of these projects function as powerful reminders of ideas and practices that have played

33 Revolutions (33 1 / 3 RPM) is the standard speed for recording high fidelity sound on a vinyl record. As the title of this exhibition, this format is proposed as a metaphor for the work of the artists who “”recorded”” the multiple revolutions of the gaze in images and gestures, which seen in the present, are testimonies of a rebellion against the authoritarianism of the hegemonic institutions: family, academic, ecclesiastical, he politics. The album is also offered as a vestige of the world before the incursion of neoliberalism in the region, a world in an irrepressible state. of disintegration, in which the word revolution had different connotations from the current ones. The uses of graphics, from political activism to the territories of daily life, invoked great visual forces that challenge us with the emotion, attention and dedication of those who inscribe their gesture on the matrix, and leaves the imprint of that matrix in multiple stamps.”