VIP PROGRAM | ESTE TERTULIA I Marcia Xavier
Charlotte Laubard, Curator (France)
Veronica Cordeiro, Curator, (Uruguay/Brazil)
in conversation with Marcia Xavier, Artist (Brazil)
Marcia Xavier (Brazil) was born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil in 1967. She graduated in Visual Communication from FAAP, São Paulo. In her artistic research she focuses on the phenomenon of image displacement in space and time. She creates sculptures, apparatuses and devices that invite the spectator to interact with the work and induce them towards visual imbalance. Among her recent exhibitions are: “On Another Scale,” Galeria Continua San Gimignano, Italy (2014); Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio, USA (2014); Eloge du Vertige, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France (2012). She participated in the following biennials: VI Habana biennial; III Mercosul bienal and IV Curitiba biennial. In Brazil she exhibited at the Museu da Cidade de São Paulo, Museu da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, among many others. In 2013 she was awarded the first Artistic Residency Grant Prize, ICCo and SP-Arte, Esthia, Rome, Italy, and in 2012 the second Itamaraty Contemporary Art Prize. Her work can be found in the collections of the Société Generale d’ Art Contemporain, Paris; MAM Rio de Janeiro; MAM São Paulo; Itaú Collection; SESC São Paulo.
Charlotte Laubard (France) is Art History and Theory professor and researcher at Geneva University of Art and Design since 2013. She directed CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (2006-2013), was the consultant for Viktor Pinchuk Foundation in Kiev (2005-06), assistant curator at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea of Turin (2002-05) and curatorial associate at PS1 COntemporary Art Centre in New York (1999-2000). She has also created several projects as an independent curator and currently develops the Nouveaux Commanditaires in Switzerland.
Veronica Cordeiro (Brazil-Uruguay) is the curator of the Photography Centre of Montevideo (CdF) since January 2013, where she commissioned new work by Rosângela Rennó (2011), Dias & Riedweg (2013), among others. Co-curator of the Uruguay Pavilion at the 55th Biennale di Venezia (2013), recent curatorships include residencies and survey exhibitions of Cao Guimarães, Tamara Cubas, Ernesto Vila. With the support of ICI-NY in 2011 she founded Surcontexto, an organization devoted to researching curating in trans-disciplinary and ethnographic contexts. She writes regularly for catalogues and magazines and participates in the Jury of prestigious prizes in Uruguay, Argentina, Canada and Holland.