(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
On the 14th edition of the Prize, we have the pleasure of announcing the Awarded Artists of PIPA 2023: Glicéria Tupinambá, Helô Sanvoy, Iagor Peres and Luana Vitra. Among this year’s 73 nominated artists, artists with a career no longer than 15 years, these four were chosen by PIPA’s Board for having works that are forceful and that represent the plurality of poetics and languages developed in Brazil. As a part of the prize, each artist receives a donation of R$20k and celebrates the decision with the exhibition at Paço Imperial, from September 9 to November 12.
Since 2020, the Prize’s exhibition does not have a competitive aspect. This show is, also, a celebration of the choosing of these four artists as this edition’s awardees. Thus, the four of them share Terreiro’s space with juxtaposed artworks, positioned in a way that highlights the possible permeabilities and enhancing their power as a set. Without a rigid expography, they create the space together in a free and fluid way – the exhibition is written by many hands.
As stated by Luiz Camillo Osorio, curator of the PIPA Institute, “The four awarded artists make explicit the plastic strength extracted from dissident bodies and their daily struggles. More than just the conquest of visibility, they fill in the gaps with meaning. Symptomatically, the presence of dance, the body and performance permeates the four poetics”.
PIPA Institute: Recent Acquisitions
Beyond the works of the four winners of 2023, PIPA Institute presents, in Terreirinho, the space in front of Terreiro, works commissioned and acquired over the last few years. These are works by contemporary Brazilian artists that are part of PIPA Prize’s history: Agrade Camíz, Guilherme Bretas, Elias Maroso, Maxwell Alexandre, UÝRA and Xadalu Tupã Jekupé. The PIPA Institute collection can be visited on http://www.institutopipa.com/.
PIPA Prize 2023: Glicéria Tupinambá, Helô Sanvoy, Iagor Peres and Luana Vitra
PIPA Institute: Recent Acquisitions
From September 9 to November 12
Opening: September 9, from 12pm to 6pm
Paço Imperial
Praça XV de Novembro, 48 Centro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
From Tuesday to Sunday, das 12h às 18h
Free entrance