The
Moreira Salles Institute , in an unprecedented partnership with
Pivô – a non-profit cultural association based in Copan, São Paulo – will hold the exhibition "
Among us: ten years of Bolsa ZUM/IMS " from April 1st, featuring works by artists and collectives supported by the scholarship to promote
contemporary production in the last decade. The exhibition will occupy the first floor of Pivô and will feature around
250 works , including photographs, videos, installations and other media. Many of the works in the exhibition are based on personal
stories and
issues to address broader themes of the country's visual, social and political representation.
The exhibition covers topics such as the history of slavery and racism, migration flows, social identities, ancestral spirituality and environmental and urban challenges. Many works also focus on the
cultural conventions that shape images, dismantling preconceived ideas about what constitutes reality, documentation or fiction, such as the works of
Leticia Ramos, Sofia Borges and
Helena Martins-Costa. “Creating an exhibition with works produced over the course of ten years is an opportunity to revisit the
utopias and
dystopias that permeate the artistic production of this turbulent period. Together, these works show the variety, originality and power of contemporary Brazilian production; they also show the artists’ lucidity about the role they play in the construction and reconstruction of the country,” says
Thyago Nogueira , coordinator of the IMS’s contemporary photography area.
The exhibition is the result of
an unprecedented partnership between the Instituto Moreira Salles and Pivô, a platform for artistic exchange and experimentation that, since 2012, has offered one of the most independent programs attentive to
artistic practices in new generations of Brazilian and international art , from its space in the Copan building in downtown São Paulo.
For the first time, the collection built by the IMS through the ZUM/IMS Scholarship over the last decade is presented extensively in a dialogue and confrontation with the unique characteristics of a space like Pivô, proposing a synergy between the objectives and strategies of two institutions that thus converge in the presentation of an anthological vision of the history of the ZUM/IMS Scholarship and the youngest Brazilian art scene of the last decade, in a joint gesture that expands the possibilities of its knowledge based on the artistic, social and political questions led by the works presented. The exhibition is curated by Thyago Nogueira , coordinator of the IMS contemporary photography area, Daniele Queiroz , assistant curator at IMS, and Ângelo Manjabosco , researcher at IMS. The works in the exhibition, many of which are previously unseen , belong to the Instituto Moreira Salles collection and will be presented together for the first time. Service Among us: ten years of the Zum/IMS Scholarship Opening April 1, 2023 Visiting until July 30, 2023
