bienal de cerveira, 2022
Fundação Bienal de Arte de Cerveira, Viana do Castelo, Portugal
44 anos depois do primeiro dia da utopia, em 2022, a bienal mais antiga da Península Ibérica e uma das estruturas de programação artística contemporânea mais antigas e relevantes em Portugal, quer agir e colocar a Arte e os artistas a pensar o mundo e as emergências globais que a todos afetam.
Ao considerarmos a emergência climática e a atualidade de temas como a sustentabilidade, é impossível que não evoquemos a importância da jovem ativista, a sueca Greta Thunberg (n.2003) e o seu contributo para colocar na agenda política global as problemáticas associadas ao ambiente. Uma das suas frases icónicas: “You must take action. You must do the impossible. Because giving up is never an option.” é, assim, o mote para o tema da XXII Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira, mudando-se o sujeito para a primeira pessoal do plural: WE MUST TAKE ACTION! / DEVEMOS AGIR!
Direção artística: Helena Mendes Pereira
infestação/ enfestação - fábrica de ratoeiras concorde
Z42 Arte, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
3ª coletiva EIXO, 2022
Online, Viewing room www.eixoarte.com
This is Essential Work, 2022
Online; Viewing room www.thisisessentialwork.com
Curadoria de Michal Nahman (UWE, Bristol) and Susan Newman (Open University)
This Is Essential Work is an online open-access intersectional feminist exhibition initiated by academic mothers and creators, Michal Nahman (UWE, Bristol) and Susan Newman (Open University) in response to their experiences and interdisciplinary research on the commodification of breastmilk and forms of exploitation of women’s bodies and labour.
This exhibition emerged from research funded by a UWE Vice Chancellor’s Award for Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research conducted just before the Covid-19 pandemic, in Bengaluru, India, into mother’s provision of “excess” breastmilk to a private company that was processing it and selling it at a profit. Why did mothers give their milk? Because they were convinced that they were helping others in need and that they could do this without cost.
This is not unique to breastmilk. It is not enough to just write about this in the distant realm of academia. Those who engage in social reproductive labour work hard; giving in the home, caring for their own children, for other peoples’ children, and for other family members in a multitude of ways. The way that social reproduction is organised in capitalist society has relied upon and entrenched social divisions and continued oppression along classed, gendered and racialised lines. Those from oppressed groups are on average paid less, more likely to be in precarious employment, and in jobs that are undervalued in a capitalist society, such as care work.
For this exhibition, the art conveys how work and bodies get devalued. This feminist exhibition is about showcasing this gendered work: to acknowledge, to grieve, and importantly, to connect with one another.
We are showcasing mother/artists who question the value that society puts on their work, including all kinds of labour. The list of our Essential Work is endless and it holds up the world. We ask: What is the value of reproductive labour today? How does it relate to other forms of paid and unpaid work?
quando o perigo fica em duas patas, 2019
Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Curadoria de Cadu, Pollyana Quintella e Marcelo Campos
video: Fel Barros
