We are pleased to announce our participation in Frieze London 2022 opening on October 12. For this year’s edition, our presentation is organized around two thematic axes. The first one tackles the historical relations between the West and the global South, focusing on the consequences of colonialism, the migratory crises that affect the planet, the exploitation of […]
Historically, anthropophagy was practiced among some humans during rituals as a way to absorb the qualities of the individual that was being eaten, like the bravery and courage of a defeated warrior. This idea of incorporating another’s qualities through deglutition is the foundation of Brazilian « Anthropophagy », theorized by Oswald de Andrade in the […]
In her new exhibition Small Ecology of the Image Rosângela Rennó uses photography as a pretext to question the archives, the narratives and the power relations that make some images exist and circulate, while so many others remain invisible and, therefore, forgotten. The exhibition celebrates the Brazilian artist’s 35-year career bringing together more than 130 works 1987 and 2021. Small Ecology of the Image is currently on […]
We live in a world that is increasingly saturated with images. Their number is growing so exponentially that the space for visibility seems to be literally inundated, as if it can no longer contain the images that constitute it. The exhibition ??????????é ??? ?????? (Image Supermarket) at the Red Brick Art Museum in Beijing addresses the different questions that arise as we inhabit […]
On the occasion of ARCO 2021, mor charpentier presents a project involving multiple voices, organized around two main themes. The first of these has to do with “the archive and the testimony”: works in which the artist is a researcher, collector and witness of reality featuring the works of Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lara Almarcegui, Oscar Muñoz, Rosângela Rennó, […]
Discover the works of Alexander Apóstol, Daniel Correa Mejía, Paz Errázuriz, Teresa Margolles, Carlos Motta and Rossângela Rennó in our new Online Viewing Room: “American Boy”. The works that compose this selection seek to question the male portrait and its complexities through lenses that challenge the traditional notions of masculinity. The Viewing Room will be […]
From Charwei Tsai’s spiritual representations of Buddhist scriptures to Rosângela Rennó’s exploration of penitentiary mug shots, our upcoming booth at Frieze New York will examine the practice of self-portraiture and identity. Our online viewing room will feature the works of Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Carlos Motta, Oscar Muñoz, Liliana Porter, Rosângela Rennó, Charwei Tsai and Hajra Waheed. Register at frieze.com in order to visit our online viewing room, VIP previews open on May 5th.
This week mor charpentier will open its virtual exhibition Resisting the Present, part of the Female Voices of Latin América presentation organized by VORTIC, the largest group of shows ever of Latin American female artists. The gallery’s show includes works by Paz Errázuriz, Teresa Margolles, Nohemí Pérez, and Rosângela Rennó. Their proposals traverse places of […]
“I wanna be with you” is a group exhibition that investigates the notions of contact, interaction, communication, proximity, exchange and collaboration strategies, in contrast to the concepts of isolation, seclusion, social distancing, detachment and separation. The project offers an exceptional itinerary of the history of Colombian and international art from the 1970s to the present. Thus, […]
Rosângela Rennó has been selected as part of Hundred Heroines, a pioneering charitable organisation that promotes and celebrates the diversity of women working globally in photography today. Rennó’s mixed-media practice is grounded on forgotten photographic archives and dead files. It is through the revaluation of these abandoned materials that Rennó is able to shed light on society’s anonymous and overlooked […]
Latin America has been formed by a series of unfortunate events, which, although it seems to question and reinvent itself, falls under cyclical social and political circumstances. There is no before in the histories of Latin America’s countries that can be looked at with nostalgia, as they are countries that, since their discovery, have been […]
Spotlight on contemporary creation. For the first time, the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac is inviting twenty-six artists from across the world to take part in a truly contemporary exhibition focusing on different relationships to photographic and filmed images. http://www.quaibranly.fr/en/exhibitions-and-events/at-the-museum/exhibitions/event-details/e/a-toi-appartient-le-regard-et-la-liaison-infinie-entre-les-choses-38474/