The pages of the artists nominated for the PIPA Prize are gradually fed with content related to their work. Each participant has its page, in which there is information about their trajectory, images, texts, and/or videos about the works. These pages serve as a catalog of contemporary Brazilian art and can be updated by the artists at any time.
In this post, we present a few pages of the 64 names of PIPA 2021.
Artist, writer and psychologist with a degree from Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo. Today, M.A. student at the program of Psicologia Clínica of PUC-SP. Lives the Transmutation as an inevitable design. Circumvents, incorporates, and dives in her Bantu ontology. Assumes the cure as a perishable moment of freedom. Studies and builds spirituality and interspecific ancestry.
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Born in Niteroi, Lucas Tolezano, also known as cosme sao Lucas, graduated in Digital Media at PUC-RJ and currently lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His artistic practice seeks to deal with the popular intelligence and sensibility that Rap is committed to (where he developed his critical thinking during his adolescence), using the creative process of contemporary art, that, in contrast, worships inaccessibility. In 2017, along with his college friends, he founded A Noiva – Church of the Kingdom of Art, a congregation of artists who preach the faith in creative doing.
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My artistic researches are autobiogeographic and are manifested by intersections, between the social, the ancestral and the spiritual. Building images, activating possible memories, demarcating original territories in the collective unconscious, crumbling borders and burning herbs to heal colonial wounds. The dimensions of ancestral black feminism to activate the decolonial and counter-colonial, are crossed to establish a possible Afro-diasporic-indigenous place. Graduated in Architecture and Urbanism at UFG, I created the concept AXÉTETURA where I make the displacement of the Eurocentric-modern-capitalist epistemic impositions seeking my references of space, territory, place, culture, knowledge and oralizations from the Afro-centered worldview and the Indigenous Enchanting.
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Keila Serruya Sankofa, Producer, audiovisual director and visual artist, was born in 1985 in Manaus – Amazonas, where she lives and works. Understands the street as a space for dialogue with the city, producing audiovisual installations that exhibit films, photos and video art. Artist who uses photography and audiovisual as a tool to propose self-esteem and question the erasure of black people; currently, she uses her body as a protagonist in the construction of her artworks. Also recognizes the urban space as a crossroads of possibilities, which offers a non-hierarchical decolonial dialogue with the public. Extensive experience in directing the production of audiovisual projects such as series and short films, as well as the production of exhibitions, festivals and shows in diverse artistic languages. Manager of Grupo Picolé da Massa, Artistic Director of the Direito à Memória Project, member of APAN Associação dxs Profissionais do Audiovisual Negro, Nacional Trovoa and Coletivo Tupiniqueen.
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I started my career in graffiti, being the first prominent woman to paint the walls of Vitória and one of those responsible for building the local scene, with works that can be found today in different cities across the country. Since 2016, my artistic practice has materialized in different supports, techniques, and scales, with deeper research on the color blue, an element that presents itself from the relationship with the island-city landscape to the spark for a closer look at the art history, in particular, the practice of painting.
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Leandro Muniz (São Paulo, 1993) is an artist and researcher graduated from the University of São Paulo, in 2019. Since 2015, has been participating in group shows in institutions and platforms such as Museu de Arte do Rio, Casa de cultura do Parque, Sesc, Artsy, Espaços das Artes, Arte_Passagem, Ateliê397, and others. Between 2019 and 2021, Muniz has worked as an art critic at seLecT magazine and has curated exhibitions in institutions and galleries such as Bica Platform, Partilha Project, Galeria Karla Osório, Galeria O Quarto, Galeria Virgilio and Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade. His texts can also be found in publications such as Reliéve Contemporáneo, Arte Que Acontece, Rosa and Terremoto.
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Lorena Ferreira Alves (1990 – ?) is Brazilian born in Alto Araguaia – Mato Grosso, she moved to Goiânia in 2008, where she completed a degree in Music at the School of Music and Performing Arts of the Federal University of Goiás in 2013, and the Masters in Music course at the same institution in 2016. She worked as a composer and guitarist in the band Belas Infiéis, performed at festivals such as Festival Rock in Roça 2016, in the city of Goiânia, Grito Rock 3rd edition in the city of Formosa, and at the London Pub show house in the city of Uberlândia. In 2016 and 2017, she taught electric guitar, guitar and music theory at the Center for Professional Education in Arts Basileu França.
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Luana Vitra 1995 (Contagem – MG – BRAZIL) Luana grew up in Contagem, an industrial city that made her body live through iron and soot. Raised by a carpenter (father) and a wordsmith (mother), she moves as she prays, searching for survival and healing of the landscapes she inhabits. Luana understands the body itself as a trap, and her actions as micropolitics that deal with the spatiality that her work evokes, confronts, and confuses.
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Lyz Parayzo is a Brazilian sculptor who also works with performance, jewelry and audiovisual. He studied performing arts at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) and Visual Arts at the Parque Lage School of Visual Arts. In 2019, he moved to Paris to begin a process of specialization in the Master’s program at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. His work has been exhibited in the most important museums in Brazil, such as the São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand Art Museum, Tomie Ohtake Institute, Moreira Salles Institute and Rio Art Museum. His works are part of the following public collections: MAC – Niterói, Casa de Culture of Latin America (UNB), MASP, MAR and Pinacoteca de São Paulo.
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Maré de Matos is a transdisciplinary artist from the Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Brazil. She graduated in visual arts at the guignard school (UEMG), master’s degree in literary theory (UFPE) and is currently working on the project Museum of emotions for her doctorate (diversitas, USP). she works on the tension between version and truth; single history and polyphonic counter-narratives; power and position. She researches representation and responsibility, the invention of race and narrative of self, imaginary and delirium of modernity, subjectivity and black poetics. Her work is situated, above all, in the gap between the territories of image and word. She is interested in the black atlantic as a process of formation, in revision as a principle, and in poetry as a political tool for emancipation. works in hybrid languages and defends the right to emotion of subjects deprived of the status of humanity.
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Every week, we will post new pages and video interviews. Stay tuned!