Pedro Victor Brandão
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2020
1985
Brazil
Sé
Pedro Victor Brandão combines the circulation of images with the concept of economic landscape, confronting artistic traditions in a derivative practice that evaluates the actual stage of capitalism and its distribution measures.
For Liste Showtime, Sé presents three paintings from Totalities series, in which the artist informs abstract fields of color using data visualization techniques that reflect on regimes of accumulation, transfer and extraction of capital. Untitled #8, #15, and #16 are stacked area graphs depicting data on pre-tax income inequality, from 1990 to 2015, available at the World Inequality Database.
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"It all comes from a desire to achieve visual and critical repertoire from the realities I experience. This involves writing, reading and the need to put visuality into a check, a take on the corrupting role that the images bring."
From Redistribute the Crisis, an interview with curator Marilia Loureiro. Published in 2017 on issue 9 (After Brazil), Terremoto magazine.
"What constitutes the ownership of exo-economic natural resources? What are the risks of outer-space missions for water, platinum, palladium, and other rare metals? Will these undertakings further academic research in the fields of cosmochemistry and mineralogy? Will they provide the means for a universal basic income? Or will the result simply be an interplanetary bank for a handful of investors?"
From the artist's essay On exo-economics, published in 2016 on the compilation Between Crowds and Empires.
Tela Preparada was the first solo show of Pedro at Sé, in 2016.
Previous Shows
Tela Preparada, 2016. Curated by Fernando Ticoulat. Sé, São Paulo.
Pedro Victor Brandão (*1985, Rio de Janeiro) is a visual artist. He holds a degree in Photography from UNESA (2009), and attended to liberal study courses at EAV Parque Lage (2010 and 2015), Universidade de Verão at Capacete (2012), and CBAE (2019), all of them in Rio de Janeiro. He develops works considering political landscapes in researches on economics, right to the city, social cybernetics and the present manipulable nature of technical image. Selected solo shows include Forjada e Outras Formas (Portas Vilaseca Galeria, Rio de Janeiro, 2019), Tela Preparada (Sé, São Paulo, 2016), and Pintura Antifurto (Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, 2011). He has participated in many group shows, such as Take Me (I’m Yours) (Villa Medici, Rome, 2018), Vivemos na melhor cidade da América do Sul (Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, 2017), DURA LEX, SED LEX (Centro Cultural Parque de España, Rosario, 2017), Estudos sobre o mercadismo (Casa Tomada, São Paulo, 2016), and Novas Aquisições 2012/2014 – Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand (Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, 2014). He was granted the 11th Funarte Marc Ferrez Prize (2010), and nominated to the 11th PIPA Prize (2020). As artist-in-residence, he went to Pivô Arte e Pesquisa (São Paulo, 2018), FAAP (São Paulo, 2017), Lastro Centroamérica (Panama City, 2015), Z/KU – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (Berlin, 2014), Terra UNA, (Liberdade, 2013), and Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, 2012). He lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.