With almost twice the number of entries compared to the previous edition, the 6th EDP nas Artes Award registered 464 entries from 23 different states and the Federal District. The ten finalists in 2018 are: Ana Cláudia De Almeida Santos (Rio De Janeiro - RJ, 1993); Elilson Gomes Do Nascimento (Recife - PE, 1991); Iagor João Barbosa Peres (Rio De Janeiro - RJ, 1995); Jéssica De Souza Luz (Araranguá - SC, 1992); Lucas Emanuel Furtado Soares (Belo Horizonte - MG, 1994); Ludmila Porto Cioffi De Lima (São Paulo - SP, 1989); Lyz Parayzo (Rio De Janeiro – RJ, 1994); Mariana Rosado Ferreira (Recife - PE, 1989); Matheus De Simone Maciel (Rio De Janeiro - RJ, 1994) and Rafael José Bandeira Da Penha (Belém -PA, 1992).

20 names were pre-selected from all the entries based on a portfolio analysis conducted by a panel of judges that includes the artists Artur Lescher, Fabio Morais, Jonas Van Holanda, Virginia de Medeiros and curators Diane Lime and Luise Malmaceda. The list of all ten finalists was decided after individual Skype interviews. The selecteds will receive personal assistance from the panel to help conclude their respective works. A rare opportunity for young artists, this mentorship will help them comply with the criteria for choosing the three winners.

At the award will also include an exhibition of the works by all ten finalists at the Instituto Tomie Ohtake, where they will be on display from November 29 to January 13. The three winners of the artistic residency grants will be announced at the exhibition opening on 29/11.

Focused on stimulating contemporary artistic production, the EDP nas Artes Award is an initiative organized by the Instituto Tomie Ohtake and EDP, a company that operates in all areas of the country’s electricity industry, via the Instituto EDP, an association that manages the Group’s social and environmental investments. The Award embraces all young Brazilian artists, where they are born here or resident in Brazil for at least two years, between 18 and 29 years old. In addition to the award, the initiative includes various activities throughout the year, such as classes, lectures and workshops in Brazilian regions where access to contemporary art is limited. This edition was held in three cities: São José dos Campos, Vitoria and Palmas.

“Since being founded ten years ago, the Instituto EDP’s goal is to promote art and culture throughout Brazil. The EDP nas Artes Award is one of the company’s main initiatives in this area, encouraging the growth of contemporary arts and helping to educate the new generations of great artists”, says Luis Carlos Gouveia, director at IEDP.

At the three winners of the previous editions, in 2016, were António Tarsis de Jesus (Salvador, BA); Luisa Puterman (São Paulo, SP); and Jonas Van Holanda (Fortaleza, CE). They were given the opportunity to further their education in Colombia, Canada and Portugal.

About EDP and IEDP

Based on financial discipline and a tight focus on its business, EDP is a widely recognized company operating on an integrated basis across all areas of the Brazilian energy market, including Production, Transmission, Distribution, Trading and Solutions in Electrical Energy. The Company currently has around three thousand employees and assets in eight states, including a national presence in the Energy Solutions and Trading sectors.

At the Instituto EDP is responsible for structuring the Company’s social investments and initiatives, focusing on areas linked to promoting the Portuguese Language, education and local development alongside income generation, entrepreneurship and volunteering through sports, culture and health. Altogether, 35 projects were approved in 2017, benefitting 60 thousand people.

About the Instituto EDP

Founded in November 28, 2001, the institute Tomie Ohtake quickly became a focal point for the visual arts scene given to the quality of its events. The Institute stands out for being the only venue in the city dedicated to showcasing national and international exhibitions encompassing the visual arts, architecture and design, as well as sponsoring awards in these three areas. The Institute is well-known for its broad and creative education program around the arts, based on research, material production, teacher training and a class schedule with an innovative approach to art education. Furthermore, the Institute runs a groundbreaking accessibility program to reassess issues that include access to culture and diversity, focusing on servicing groups in society whose social rights are not guaranteed.  

About the Panel

Artur Lescher (1962, São Paulo; Lives and works in Sao Paulo). Lescher has been a prominent sculptor for over 30 years, following his research into interlinking materials, thoughts and methods. He has a natural, seamless and precise connection to design and architectural spaces as well as his choice of materials, which include metal, rocks, wood, felt, salts, brass and copper, fundamental elements to strengthen the reinforce the power behind his expression. While Lescher’s work has strong ties to industrial processes, based on extreme finesse and discipline, his output is not solely focused on form, but goes well beyond it. This contradiction makes way for myths and imagination, essential ingredients in building his minimal Landscape. By choosing to name his works as Rio Máquina, Metamérico or Inabsência (Octógono Project, Sao Paulo State Pinacoteca, 2012), Lescher suggests a broader scope, a narrative at times paradoxical or provocative that places the audience in suspension. Artur Lescher attended the Sao Paulo Biennial from 1987 to 2002 and the 2005 edition of the Mercosur Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He has had several exhibitions in Latin America, Europe and the United States, in addition to individual exhibitions at the Instituto Tomie Ohtake in Sao Paulo (2006) and the Palais d’léna in Paris (2017).

Diane Lima is an independent curator and creative director. She has a master’s degree in Communication and Semiotics from PUC-SP and her work experiments with artistic practices and multidisciplinary curatorship, developing collective learning devices focused on knowledge creation and production processes. In 2014, she founded the NoBrasil platform and created the AfroTranscendente project (Red Bull Station/ Galpao VideoBrasil), an immersion program for creative processes aiming to promote contemporary Afro Brazilian culture. Between 2016 and 2017, she was responsible for curatorship of the Silicon Valley Festival of African Cinema - USA/BR, created A.Gentes - Racial Issues Immersion Program for Itaú Cultural employees and, at the same institution, was also responsible for curating the ‘Absent Dialogues’ program which lasted a year and a half and which discussed the presence of black people in various areas of expression, resulting in an exhibition of the same name which was shown in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. In 2018, she is curating the Valongo International Image Festival, is serving on the jury panels of the Oi Futuro-sponsored ArtSonica Residency in Rio de Janeiro, the EDP nas Artes Award of the Instituto Tomie Ohtake and the Art Critics Group of CCSP-Sao Paulo Cultural Center. 

Fabio Morais (1975, São Paulo; lives and works in both Sao Paulo and Florianopolis) is a PhD candidate at UDESC. He is represented by the Red Gallery, which held his most recent individual exhibition, “Escritexpográfica” (2017). He has taken part in collective exhibitions across several institutions such as the Sao Paulo Biennial, the Mercosur Biennial, MAM-SP, CCSP, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, SESC, MAC Niteroi, Helio Oiticica Cultural Center, the Pampulha Art Museum, MACBA (Barcelona), CGAC (Santiago de Compostela), the Inca Garcilaso Cultural Center (Lima), MAC Lyon, Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco), Astrup Fearnley Musset, The Sternersen Museum, Punkt Ø (Oslo), Bonniers Konsthall (Stockholm), among others. His art alternates between the exhibitions circuit and the publishing area, the latter includes works released by Edições Tijuana, par(ent)esis, Ikrek, Meli-Melo, Dulcineia Catadora, Kitschic Ediciones and Cosac Naify publishing companies. Also in the publishing, he has also had works published in the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper, Bravo Magazine, Caderno video_brasil, Select Magazine, Refil Magazine, Recibo Magazine, Bólide Magazine, Abrigo Portátil Magazine, Jornal de Borda and A Recreativa.

Jonas van Holanda (1989, Fortaleza; lives and works in Sao Paulo) is a non-binary trans artist, researcher of gender insurgencies and poetic identities and also a vegetation alchemist.  His work is inspired by a subversion of semantic relations and the creation of new aesthetic references via tools and decolonial discourse. Highlights among his most recent exhibitions are: ‘Quando nós estamos?’ at the Instituto Tomie Ohtake (Sao Paulo), Travessias Ocultas at the SESC Bom Retiro (Sao Paulo), Bestiario at the Sao Paulo Cultural Center and Sandwich Generation at Capacete (Rio de Janeiro).  He worked at the Sao Paulo 32nd Biennial at the Restauro artwork-restaurant organized by Jorge Menna Barreto. He also held a residency at the Casa Matony in La Paz, Bolivia, curated by Beatriz Lemos (LASTRO), and the HANGAR Artistic Investigation Center (the residency was jointly organized with the Instituto Tomie Ohtake, sponsored by the Instituto and he won the 5th Energy in the Arts Award, 2016). Jonas attended the A SUL artistic residency at the Carnide Public Washhouse (Teatro do Silêncio, Lisbon). His ongoing activities include actions and workshops on dietary micro politics and decolonial structures on gender and feminism, trying to reshape the role of trans masculinity in a context of timeless phallocentrism. He lives and works in Sao Paulo.

Luise Malmaceda is a researcher and curator at the Tomie Ohtake Institute. She holds a master’s degree in Aesthetics and History of Art from the University of São Paulo, specialized in History of Art from the Armando Álvares Penteado Foundation and has a graduate degree in Visual Arts from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. She has research and education expertise at institutions such as the Ibere Camargo Foundation and the Vera Chaves Barcellos Foundation, and she has also run independent curation projects since 2011. In 2015, she was the Lead Editor of Harper’s Bazaar Art magazine.

Virginia de Medeiros (1973, Feira de Santana, Bahia; lives and works in Sao Paulo) her work mainly involves video installations and audiovisual media, developing works that explore the limits between fiction and reality. The artist juggles three common hypothesis across the documentary and arts sector: displacement, participation and fabulation. De Medeiros. In 2006, her work “Studio Butterfly” was selected for by the Rumos Itaú Cultural Program and for the 27th Sao Paulo Biennial. In 2009, she was involved in the artistic residency “International Women for Peace Conference” at Dili, in East Timor, and in 2007 attended the artistic residency of the La Chambre Blanche Arts Center in Quebec, Canada. She received the 2009 National Funarte Visual Arts award for her video installation “Fala dos Confins”, purchased by the Sao Paulo Cultural Center in 2013. In 2010, she attended the 2nd Luanda Triennial “Emotional Geography, Art and Affections” and, in 2011, the 320 Brazilian Arts Panorama at MAM Sao Paulo. In 2012, she was awarded the Funarte Production Incentive grant for Visual Arts with her project “Jardim das Torturas” and at the 18th Videobrasil Contemporary Arts Festival she was awarded the Residency Award for ICCo - Contemporary Culture Institute at Residency Unlimited - in New York, USA. Recent collective exhibitions include: Missão (Sao Paulo Cultural Center, São Paulo, 2014); Cães Sem Plumas (MAMAM, Recife, Brazil; Nara Roesler Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil, 2013); Novas Aquisições Project MAC CE- Dos percursos e das poesias (Dragão do Mar, Fortaleza, Brazil, 2013); Cervantes Institute Collective (Cervantes Institute, São Paulo, Brazil, 2012); Metrô de Superfície (Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil, 2012); and Vídeo Guerrilha (Augusta Art Intervention, São Paulo, Brazil, 2011).

Exhibition:  6th EDP nas Artes Award

Starts: November 29, at 8 pm

Open until January 13, 2019, from Tuesday to Sunday, 11 am to 8 pm, free of charge.

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