Though it’s dark, still
sing
Museu de Arte do Rio – MAR
October 22, 2022 – January 22, 2023 List of works
34th Bienal de São Paulo
program Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
I
Traveling exhibitions
Rio de Janeiro
The Portraits of Frederick Douglass, 1841-1895
Fine art print in poster format 60 × 40 cm
54 portraits of the approximately 160 carried out in Frederick Douglass’ lifetime were collected and printed. Collections: Greg French; Onondaga Historical Association; Albert Cook Myers Collection / Chester County Historical Society; MoorlandSpingarn Research Center / Howard University; National Portrait Gallery / Smithsonian Institution; The Art Institute of Chicago; John Chester Buttre; Nelson-Atkins 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
Statement
Papp
The Summer Had Swelled the Park, the Trees and Air Chaotically, as is a Madman’s Drawing, 2014
Clay
29,5 × 32 × 3,2 cm
Courtesy of the artista and Stuart Shave/Modern Art London
Untitled, 2014 Clay
29 × 25 × 2,3 cm Artist’s collection
There Was Always a Truth that Later Turned Out Be a Lie, 2015
Clay
30 × 34 × 2,5 cm Artist’s collection
Untitled, 2015 Clay
32,5 × 30 × 3,5 cm Artist’s collection
Untitled, 2016 Clay
33,3 × 28,5 × 2,5 cm Artist’s collection
Untitled, 2016 Clay 34 × 27 × 2,5 cm Artist’s collection
Untitled, 2016 Clay
35 × 28,2 × 2,5 cm Artist’s collection
Untitled, 2016 Clay
34,5 × 27 × 2,3 cm Artist’s collection
Arjan Martins
Complexo Atlântico (Oceano), 2021 Atlantic Complex (Ocean)
Acrylic on canvas 275 × 765 cm
Commissioned by Fundação Bienal de São Paulo for the 34th Bienal
Daiara Tukano
Kahtiri Ēõrõ – Espelho da vida, 2020 Mirror of Life
Silk feathers and mirror Dimensions variable Artist’s collection
Daniel de Paula
circulação, 2019 circulation
Video-negotiation 30’49’’ Artist’s collection
Deana Lawson
Untitled (working title), 2018
HD video (color, sound) 12’ (loop) Artist’s collection Courtesy of the artist
Anna-Bella
Frida Orupabo
Participation in the 34th Bienal supported by: Nordic Culture Fund and Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA)
Untitled, 2018
Framed pigment prints on cotton paper (exhibition copy)
58 × 174 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm AB
Untitled, 2018
Framed pigment prints on cotton paper (exhibition copy)
116 × 174 × 5 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm AB
Untitled, 2018
Videoinstallation
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm AB
Untitled, 2019
Fine art print on cotton paper (exhibition copy)
225 × 170 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm AB
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
Artist’s collection
Joan Jonas
Wind, 1968
16 mm film transferred into video, b&w, silent 5’37”
Courtesy: Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York
Noa Eshkol
Participation in the 34th Bienal supported by: Artis and the Consulado Geral de Israel em São Paulo
Sunsets, 1975
Cotton, flannel, synthetic fabrics 168 × 180 cm
Courtesy: The Noa Eshkol Foundation for Movement Notation, Holon, Israel and neugerriemschneider, Berlin
The Judean Desert, 1987
Wool, cotton, silk, polymers, rayon, polyester, polyamide, elastane 292 × 150 cm
Courtesy: The Noa Eshkol Foundation for Movement Notation, Holon, Israel and neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Wonderful Summer That Noa Missed With Birds
, c. 1990
Wool, cotton, silk, cellulose 291 × 187 cm
Courtesy: The Noa Eshkol Foundation for Movement Notation, Holon, Israel and neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Creeper on a Tree, 2000s
Cotton gabardine, untreated cotton cloth, flannelette, cotton lawn, silk lawn, silk jersey, crêpe de Chine 287 × 150 cm
Courtesy: The Noa Eshkol Foundation for Movement Notation, Holon, Israel and neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Paulo Kapela
Untitled, 2007
Graphite on paper 63 × 77 cm
Private collection
Untitled, 2007
Mixed media 65 × 42 cm
Private Collection
Untitled, 2008
Mixed media 72 × 53 cm
Private Collection
Untitled, 2009
Mixed media 58 × 31 cm
Private Collection
Untitled, 2009
Mixed media 82 × 40 cm
Private Collection
Untitled, 2010
Mixed media 56 × 76 cm
Private Collection
Untitled, 2010
Mixed media 55 × 41,5 × 1,5 cm
Private Collection
Seba Calfuqueo
Participation in the 34th Bienal supported by: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio – Gobierno de Chile
Alka Domo, 2017 Videoperformance 17’
Tony Cokes
Evil.27: Selma, 2011 Video HD 9’
Courtesy of the artist, Greene Naftali, New York, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles and Electronic Arts Intermix, New York