List of works – Arles

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34th Bienal de São Paulo Traveling exhibitions program Arles Arles Arles LUMA Arles December 16, 2022 – March 5, 2023 List of works

A ronda da morte de Hélio Oiticica

Draft for the Parangolé-área: A Ronda da Morte project, May, 1979 Facsimile

Letter from Hélio Oiticica to Martine Barrat, May, 1979 Facsimile

Reading by Martine Barrat of the letter written by Hélio Oiticica Video 5’30’’

The Portraits of Frederick Douglass, 1841-1895

120 portraits of the approximately 160 carried out in Frederick Douglass’ lifetime were made available digitally.

Collections: Greg French; Onondaga Historical Association; Albert Cook Myers Collection / Chester County Historical Society; Moorland-Spingarn Research Center / Howard University; National Portrait Gallery / Smithsonian Institution; The Art Institute of Chicago; John Chester Buttre; NelsonAtkins Museum of Art; Clements Library / University of Michigan; New York Historical Society; University of New Mexico Art Museum; National Park Service; Swann Auction Galleries; Massachusetts Historical Society; Hillsdale College; Special Collections / Lavery Library / St. John Fisher College; Lynn Museum and Historical Society / Hutchinson Family Singers Album; Virginia Historical Society; Connecticut Historical Society; R. R. Auction; Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cornell University; Boston Athenaeum; Kansas State Historical Society; American Antiquarian Society; Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History; Cincinnati History Library and Archives; Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; Kansas State Historical Society; Anacostia Community Museum Archives / Smithsonian Institution; Monroe County

Public Library / State Archives of Florida; Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture; John White Hurn; Rochester Public Library; Chicago History Museum; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Mississippi Department of Archives and History and Manuscript Library; Augustus Robin; Anna Roelofs; Tuskegee University; Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute and New Bedford Whaling Museum

Tikmũ’ũn Songs

Installation with audios of the Tikmũ’ũn ritual songs, 9 books and transcriptions and translations of the songs

The songs Piabinha, Cabeça branca, Você aguenta, Cabeça vermelha and Tié-preto envergonhado were recorded with the community of women, men and Yãmĩyxop from Pradinho in the Maxakali Indigenous Land (Bertópolis-MG), in October 2003.

The songs Sobrinho, Papa-mel and Beija-flor were recorded with the community of women, men and Yãmĩyxop from Água Boa in the Maxakali Indigenous Land (Santa Helena de Minas-MG), in October 2003. Song Recording, Editing and Mastering: Leonardo Pires Rosse Editing Assistant: Eduardo Pires Rosse. Research Coordinator: Rosângela Pereira de Tugny The approach to the tikmũ‘ũn songs was only possible due to multiple conversations with: Charles Bicalho, Isael Maxacali, Paula Berbert, Roberto Romero and Sueli Maxacali, whom the curators of the 34th Bienal de São Paulo are thankful to

The Bell from Ouro Preto

Documentation in video of the bell of the Capela da Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Homens Brancos (also called Capela do Padre Faria), shot on 2nd November 2020, All Souls’ Day. It was the first time that the bell returned to play since the suspension of religious rites in Minas General due to the covid-19 pandemic. Recording and Editing: Lucas Gontijo de Godoy Duration: 12h

Statements

Alice Shintani

Mata (series), 2019-2022

Forest / Kill

Gouache on paper

16 pieces, 75 × 55 cm (each)

Commissioned by Fundação Bienal de São Paulo for the 34th Bienal

Amie Siegel

Asterisms, 2020

4K Multichannel video installation 54’

Artist’s collection

Courtesy of the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery Co-commissioned by Fundação Bienal de São Paulo for the 34th Bienal

Carmela Gross

Boca do Inferno, 2020

Hell’s Mouth

Monotypes on silk and paper Dimensions variable

Artist’s collection

Courtesy of the artist

The work was held at the Ateliê de Gravura of the Fundação Iberê Camargo Thanks to Fundação Iberê Camargo

Daiara Tukano

Ñamíriwi’í – Casa da noite, 2020

Night House

Acrylic on canvas

Commissioned by Fundação Bienal de São Paulo for the 34th Bienal

Gala Porras-Kim

Whistling and Language Transfiguration (WaLT), 2012

LP album, cyanotype print, sound 30,5 × 30,5 cm (album’s cover dimensions)

Artist’s collection

Courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles

Jaider Esbell

Carta ao velho mundo, 2021 Letter to the Old World

Digitized printed book 37,5 × 27,7 cm (each) Artist’s collection

Manthia Diawara

Participation in the 34th Bienal supported by: Institut français à Paris

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Opera Of The World, 2017 Video 71’

Naomi Rincón Gallardo

Resiliencia Tlacuache, 2019

Opossum Resilience HD video 16’01”

Courtesy of the artist Support: Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte 2019-2022 del Fondo Nacional para La Cultura y las Artes