After two rounds of voting, with 50 artists taking part in the first stage, and 20 in the second, we have the two winners of PIPA Online 2024, who will each receive a donation of R$5,000 (five thousand reais): Yacunã Tuxá and Samuel Macedo.
The PIPA Online modality, this virtual showcase, which seeks to be democratic and decentralized, is specially relevant for the artists outside of the Rio-São Paulo area that are not represented by any gallery: through the voting, they find a way to mobilize people and, thus, to disseminate their work even more.
Floresta, Brazil, 1993 / Lives and works in Salvador, Brazil
“In my work, I approach my identity with the strength of so many roots. I articulate different creative languages to account for the complexity of being a native woman. I paint, I illustrate, I write words-memory, I sink my hands into the clay, research and sharpen my gaze to propose a curation attentive to the artistic productions made by indigenous people from the Northeast of Brazil. Art is my fighting tool, my arrow.”
– See below some works by the artist. Watch her videointerview for PIPA Prize and find out more by visiting her page.
Crato, Brazil, 1984 / Lives and works in Crato, Brazil
Photographer and traveler, Samuel Macedo is a Ceará native of the world. Still a boy, he discovered his fascination for imagery through his grandfather, a natural-born inventor of fantastic contraptions who, in his workshop, birthed Samuel’s first camera, a pinhole. His education began at the Casa Grande Foundation – Memorial do Homem Kariri, but it was by observing the many characters that inhabit his territory and walking along its margins that he learned to capture the ethnographic and the poetic, perceiving in traits and gestures narratives of the people of Brazil and beyond.
– See below some works by the artist. Watch his videointerview for PIPA Prize and find out more by visiting his page.
The first round of voting took place from July 1st to 7th. Of the 62 artists in this edition, 50 decided to take part in PIPA Online 2024 and 20 of these reached 500 votes, thus qualifying for the 2nd round: Acervo da Laje, Amora Moreira (Amorinha), Arquivo Mangue, Bruna Kury, Catarina Dee Jah, Clara Moreira, Cleiber Bane Huni kuin, Daiara Tukano, Elvira Freitas Lira, Gustavo Magalhães, HAL WILDSON, Lucélia Maciel, Manuela Costa Silva, Mariana Maia, Noara Quintana, Rita Huni Kuin, Samuel Macedo, Talles Lopes, Yacunã Tuxá, Yaka Huni Kuin. The second stage with these names began on July 15th and ended at 11:59pm on Sunday, July 21st.
* Once again, we remind you that PIPA Online is an award modality open to general voting, carried out over the internet, in which the public chooses two artists to receive a donation of R$5,000. Thus, PIPA Online is different from the main category of the PIPA Prize, whose winners this year – Aislan Pankararu, Aline Motta, enorê and Nara Guichon – were selected by the PIPA Board, in a joint decision, through debate.