Anti-disciplinary transmedia artist who investigates the intersections between languages, codes and media. From a critical view on digitality and virtuality, biarritzzz discusses pop culture, low resolution images, meme pedagogics, the politics of error and improvisation, video game and internet aesthetics, with poetry and the moving images. She brings to the table the question of technicality versus amateurism, and science versus magic in creating realities. She has important works in video art and a long research in GIF art and live visuals, performance and videomapping, transiting between the contradictions of the white cubes and the black boxes of the dissident night of the Brazilian northeast. The artist part of collections such as Art Base (Rhizome/New Museum), KADIST Foundation, Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS), MIS SP, SPAMM.fr and HIPOCAMPO.art. She has exhibited at Satélite platform (Pivô Arte e Pesquisa), A.I.R Gallery, Centro Cultural São Paulo, The Wrong Biennale, FILE, The Shed NY, Städtische Galerie Bremen, MAC Goiás, Goethe Institute Porto Alegre among others. biarritzzz is part of the body of artists of the projects Unfinished Camp and Amplify D.A.I. (Digital Arts Initiative), and is currently part of the Ventre program at Hoa Gallery.
EDUCATION
– 2019 Bachelors of Social Sciences, Universidade Federal Rural De Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
– 2014 Studies in Contemporary Art, Bê Cubico, Recife, Brasil
– 2012 Saga School Of Arts, Games and Animation, Recife, Brazil
Solo Exhibitions
2021
– O Amanhã Foi Embora E Me Deixou Só Com O Agora, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Group Exhibitions
2023
– “Espaço Mítico Natural”, I Latin-American Contemporary Art Circuit, Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana, online
– “Do vôo às narinas respirar”, braços largos, mensagens ao vento, Hoa Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Vídeo substantivo feminino, São Bernardo do Campo Pinacoteca”, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
– “de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas”, Cinemateca Nacional Dominicana, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
– “CKD Completely Knocked Down – Recife Bremen Connexion”, Städtische Galerie, Bremen, Germany
– “DOOM SPA CITY WEST”, Zum schönen Knie II, BHROX bauhaus reuse, Ernst-Reuter-Platz, Berlin, Germany
– “de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas”, Pivô and KADIST, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Idolatrada Salve! Salve!”, Fábrica Bhering, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “World-sensing: 4 screens exhibition”, despace berlin, Berlin, Germany
– “100 Ways to Say We, Theater Neumarkt & Goethe-Institut”, online
– “Raio a Raio”, Solar dos Abacaxis, Pilotis of MAM Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “PROJETO VITRINE”, expo Unfinished, Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil
– “1st National Contemporary Art Salon of Goiás”, MAC Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil
– “Latin American Futurity”, EP7 Paris, curated by Rolando J. Carmona, Paris, France
2021
– “Rapsódias Ao Redor, Escuta Festival”, Instituto Moreira Salles, curated by Lorran Dias, online
– “PARALAXXX, Novas Frequências Festival”, D.A.I. (Digital Arts Initiative) and British Council, online
– “Unfinished Camp at Unfinished Live”, The Shed, New York, United States
– “FUSO Anual Internacional de Videoarte de Lisboa”, Portugal
– “Arte”, substantivo feminino, 37th Parede Gentil, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “The Scalability Project”, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, United States
2020
– “Convergências”, Goethe Institute Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil
– “9:16, N menos 1”, Estadio El Campin, Bogotá, Colombia
– “Digital Legacies”, Black Woman’s Museum, Baltimore, United States
– “Os dias antes da quebra”, Pivô Satélte, curated by Diane Lima, São Paulo, Brazil (online)
2019
– “Si Vienen Por la Mañana..”, Interior 2.1, Guadalajara, Mexico
– “The Wrong Biennale: Inflexão”, Sesc Av. Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil
– “The Wrong Biennale: Epicentre”, Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània CCCC, Valencia, Spain
– “Bienal de Curitiba”, virtual interventions with @igrejauniverssauria, Curitiba, Brazil
– “MANJAR, Solar dos Abacaxis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “SUPERNOVA Digital Animation Festival”, Denver, United States
– “New Century/ New Materials”, Whitinsville, Massachusetts, United States
– “ENTREMOVERES”, Nacional Trovoa, Museu da Abolição (The Abolition Museum), Recife, Brazil
2017
– “PERFÍDIA – Performance and New Media Festival, São José do Rio Preto, Brazil
– “Deus está solto!”, work with artist Traplev, Galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo, Brazil
– “#tecnologiaaservicodaorgia”, work with artist Kalor Pacheco, Casa Galeria Galpão, Garanhuns, Brazil
2016
– “Petal Tears”, Pop-up Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
– “Negra Dimensão Relâmpago: Cristiano Lenhardt invites biarritzzz”, Maumau Galeria, Recife, Brazil
– “Cinecão: A Noite dos Vjs Silenciosos”, Maumau Galeria, Recife, Brazil
2015
– “FILE – Electronic Language International Festival”, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Cine Under: Transterriotorial Underground Cinema Festival of Recife”, Recife, Brazil
– “Equivalência Absurda sala 5, work with artist Traplev”, Sé Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil
– “The Wrong: New Digital Art Biennale”, homeostasis lab, online
2014
– “Festival Digital Visions”, Bibliothèque Francophone Multimédia, Limoges, France
– “BYOB Tropical Paris”, 7 Rue de Aubriot 75004, Paris, France
– “Spamm Webtics NY”, 722 Metropolitan Av. Brooklyn, New York, United States
– ” Cloud Makers and Open Tech: An Open Exhibition””, MakerLabs, Vancouver, Canada
– “#nfcdab New Field Communication Digital Art Biennale”, Wroclaw, Poland
OTHER WORKS
2022
– Capivaras & Dragões, comissioned work for Revista ZUM/IMS
2021
– História da Pedra, videoart for Poty Mapping Festival, Natal, Brasil
– Cacografias: biarritzzz, Kulumym-Açu e Negrita MC, videoart for Festa da Luz, Festival, Belo Horizonte, Brasil
– Interview for Into the Clouds: New Media Art 2021 publication by CICA Museum, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, South korea
2020
– Publication of the text “Meme Pedagogics?” with curator Ariana Nuala for Frestas Art Trienal
– IMS Convida Program, Instituto Moreira Salles, as invited artist, collection
2019
– Live Visuals for E Se o Rupestre Vingaroda? Spectacle with Mahal Pita, Leo Mendes, Lenis Rino, Grace Passo, Lena Bahule, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
2017
– VIDEOSESRVICE project of videoart insertion at convenience urban spaces with Gentil Porto Filho, Isabella Stampanoni and Silvan Kalin, Recife, Brasil
– Live Visuals for 1/7 do Tempo contemporary african diaspora dance spectacle with Tsumbe Mussundza, Apolo Teather and Daruê Malungo, Recife, Brazil
– Live Visuals for the DVD of Coco Raízes de Arcoverde musical group, archeological site o Vale do Catimbau, Buíque, Brazil
– Performance and intervention at Super Dark Show Project by Gentil Porto Filho as invitated artist by Edson Barrus, Recife, Brazil
2016
– Participation on the documentary on black representativity in arts, Foice a Face.
– Art direction assistant on shoot for Harper’s Bazaar Art with Cássio Bomfim, Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, Recife, Brazil
2014
– Participation on Happy Web a web series for arte.creative.com
RESIDENCIES
– 2023 Attention, Algorithms & Social Justice, Art Hub, Copenhagen, Denmark
– 2022 Pemba Residência Preta, Dos Brasis, SESC, Brazil (online)
– 2022 Somerset House Studios AMPLIFY, London, UK (online)
– 2020 Memórias Negre Natives, CASAMATA, Fortaleza, Brazil (online)
– 2020 Mare Residency, Baltimore, US (online)
– 2018 XVI AL-ZURICH Arte y Comunidad, Quito, Ecuador
– 2017 Criaturas Urbanas, Olinda, Paulista and Recife, Brazil
TALKS & WORKSHOPS
2022
– Mostra Elas – Elas na Tek, biarritzzz and Malka Julieta, podcast
2021
– Novas Frequências Festival, The Death of Tomorrow: Ana Lira interviews biarritzzz and Glor1a, online
– Art, Education and Digital Culture, open debates part of the project “Expresso Educação – The Teacher-Researcher Residency”, MAM Rio
– II CIPS – Sonorities Research International Conference, Boderline Sonorities, biarritzzz e Fabiana Faleiros, online
– Festival Coquetel Molotov, Technology and politics in brazilian music with biaritzzz and Paige, online
2021
– Dragão do Mar, webinar Digital inventions (media, performance and virtuality), Playing with shards, looking behind, with Rodrigo Lopes
– Goethe-Institut Porto Alegre, Conversation with artists Charlene Bicalho and biarritzzz, online
– SESC IDEIAS – The plasure of the eyes, with Lucila Meirelles, Julia Zakia and Patricia Ferreira Pará Yxapy
– Diário Contemporâneo de Fotografia Prize, Hacker art: apropriation, authorship and meme, with Marcela Cantuária, mediated by Ceci Bandeira
– Pivô Arte e Pesquisa, “Meme pedagogics: what is real is not real” with Diane Lima
2019
– Rec’c’nplay Festival, “kaptura ou surta!” talk for Departameme, Recife, Brazil
– Museu da Abolição (The Abolition Museum), “Afrofuturism” debate, Recife, Brazil
2018
– Federal University of Pernambuco, “Seja Bruxa” talk for the Design Center, Recife, Brazil
– Media Lab UIO, “Sea Bruja”, Quito, Ecuador
– Central University of Ecuador, portfolio presentation, Quito, Ecuador
2017
– SESC Rio Preto, “Teatro Das Imagens” (The Images Theatre), São José do Rio Preto, Brazil
– LILO Zone, “VJ without video – HTML style”, São Paulo, Brazil
– State University of São Paulo, workshop at the art and technology center study group Zonas de Compensação, São Paulo, Brazil 2017 Museum of Modern Art Aloísio Magalhães (MAMAM), debate Where are black people in arts?, Recife, Brazil
– Cinema São Luiz, Debate on Black Cinema, invited filmmaker, Recife, Brazil
2016
– Federal University of Pernambuco, “BIARRITZZZ moving images and the virtual world” workshop for Visual Arts carreer, Recife, Brazil
FILMS
– ILHA SUÍÇA (8’35’’) Rui Mendonça and Castomo Mussundza. Director, concept and editing. Cinema São Luiz, Recife, 2017, Cinemateca de Curitiba, 2018
– MANDACURA (10’20’’) Curatorial Program of Maryland Insitute College of Art (MICA), 2019, II Mostra de Cinema de Vitória, 2018
PRIZES
– Vladimir Herzog Prize of Anisty and Human Rights honorable mention with collective project Mutirao “Illustrated edition of 70 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ”, 2019
