(Mexico City, Mexico) Marcelo Cidade participates in the exhibition “Monuments, anti-monuments and new public sculpture”, held at Chopo University Museum. Curated by Pablo León de la Barra, member of the PIPA Prize 2015 Award Jury, the exhibition invites viewers to rethink the issues surrounding the occupation of public space.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) continues its programmatic focus on the relationship between art, music, and politics with its new exhibition “Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance”. Inspired by the vital history of music in Detroit and the legacy of the 1967 Detroit Rebellion, “Sonic Rebellion” connects Detroit’s musical and political histories with a wide range of artworks by artists such as, PIPA 2010 and 2011 nominee Marcelo Cidade and PIPA 2014 and 2016 nominee Vivian Caccuri, namely, her artwork TabomBass (2016).