Simone Cadinelli Arte Contemporânea continues its exhibition "How to inhabit the present?" with "Act 2 – We Are Here," on view in its storefront window and on its website starting August 24, 2020. The video works, created using various multimedia languages such as videomapping and GIFs, will run 24 hours a day and can be viewed by passersby at Rua Aníbal Mendonça, in Ipanema. The exhibition will also be replicated on the gallery's website, featuring complete information about the works and the artists [https://www.simonecadinelli.com].
This new phase of the exhibition brings together works by 15 artists born or based in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Belém, Salvador, and Porto Alegre: Ana Clara Tito (Bom Jardim, Rio de Janeiro, 1993), Batman Zavareze (Rio de Janeiro, 1972), Gabriela Noujaim (Rio de Janeiro, 1983), Ivar Rocha (Niterói, 1986), Jonas Arrabal (Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro, 1984, based in São Paulo), Leandra Espírito Santo (1983, Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, working between São Paulo and Rio), Martha Niklaus (1960, Rio de Janeiro), Nathan Braga (Rio de Janeiro, 1994), Panmela Castro (Rio de Janeiro, 1981), Roberta Carvalho (Belém do Pará, 1980), Simone Cupello (1962, Niterói), Talitha Rossi (Resende, Rio de Janeiro, 1987), Ursula Tautz (Rio de Janeiro, 1968), Virgínia di Lauro (Barra da Choça, Bahia, 1989, based in Porto Alegre), and VJ Gabiru (São Paulo, 1977, lives in Salvador, Bahia).
Curator Érika Nascimento remarks, "In this measured time, where human life on Earth appears to have its days numbered, we present 'We Are Here'—the second act of the exhibition *How to inhabit the present?*—while yearning for better days." She continues, "In a space of fragility and pain for our social and physical bodies, where the experience of living in the city is compromised, we perceive the world—and the codes for existing within it—being constantly recreated. It is a place of estrangement, pain, and vulnerability; a state of tension and alertness for a sick society." The curator asks, "We are here, in a frantic temporal dynamic, almost a loop, and we remain without answers to the provocations launched in the first act. How can we imagine a horizon, a possible world, our place as inhabitants in this present-future time? How do we maintain a state of hope and anticipate the present?"
