At the sixth edition of the EDP in Arts Award, an initiative organized by the Tomie Ohtake Institute and EDP Brazil with support from the EDP Institute, is exhibiting works of art from selected artists. During the exhibition opening, three artists winning international residencies will be chosen from the ten finalists: 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 464 entries after their portfolios were analyzed by a panel of judges that includes artists Artur Lescher, Fabio Morais, Jonas Van Holanda, Virgínia de Medeiros and curators Diane Lime and Luise Malmaceda. The ten finalists were chosen after individual Skype interviews and announced in August. The finalists received personal support from the panel of judges to help conclude their respective works. This mentoring process implemented the criteria used to select the three winners who will be awarded grants for artist residencies abroad. 

The EDP in Arts Award aims to encourage contemporary art among young artists across Brazil, who were either born here or have been resident here for at least two years and are 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 with limited access to contemporary art. This edition will be held in three cities: São José dos Campos, Vitoria and Palmas.  

 “Since it was founded ten years ago, the EDP Institute’s objective has been to promote art and culture throughout Brazil. The EDP Award for the Arts is one of the company’s main initiatives in this area, encouraging growth of contemporary art and helping to educate a new generations of great artists”, says Luis Carlos Gouveia Pereira, executive director at IEDP. 

The three winners from the previous edition, 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 

EDP has over 20 years’ experience and is one of the biggest private-sector companies operating across the entire value chain. The Company has over 10,000 direct and indirect staff and is involved in Energy Transmission, Sales and Services. It also operates 15 hydro power plants and one thermal power station. Its Distribution area serves around 3.4 million customers in Sao Paulo and Espírito Santo. The Company recently acquired a stake in CELESC, from Santa Catarina. In Brazil, the company is noted for its Innovation, Governance and Sustainability and has been included in the B3 Business Sustainability Index (BSI) for 12 consecutive years. 

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Since its foundation in 2008, the EDP Institute has invested R$ 100 million in social and cultural projects that have benefitted around three million people, through 377 programs across the country. In 2017 alone, 35 of the organization’s initiatives have benefited 60 thousand residents living in communities located in areas where the Company operates. The EDP Institute is responsible for structuring EDP’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. 

About the Tomie Ohtake Institute 

Founded on November 21, 2001, the Tomie Ohtake Institute 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, and education. 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 - SP). Lescher’s works is prominent within the Brazilian contemporary art scene with art installations, sculptures and objects that occupy spaces due to its strength and fluidity. His work can be seen in the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (USA), at the MALBA - Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires and the MAMBA - Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (Argentina), at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, MAM - Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo, and elsewhere. He participated in the 1987 and 2002 editions of the São Paulo Biennial and the 2005 edition of the Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where he was also a curator in 2009. His art has been displayed at several exhibitions across Latin America, Europe and the United States, as well as individual exhibitions at venues such as the Palais d’lena (2017) in Paris, the OMR Gallery in Mexico City and the Nara Roesler Gallery in São Paulo. 

Diane Lima (1986, Mundo Novo - BA) is an independent curator and creative director. She has a Master’s in Communication and Semiotics from PUC-SP and her work focuses on experimental multidisciplinary curator practices with a decolonial approach. Among her several projects, she created AfroTranscendence (Red Bull Station/Galpão VideoBrasil), curated the Diálogos Ausentes exhibition (Itaú Cultural) in 2016 and 2017 and the Valongo International Image Festival in 2018. She will also take up the PlusAfrot Residency in Villa Waldberta, Munich, Germany, in 2019. 

Fabio Morais (1975, São Paulo – SP) is a visual artist with expository and editorial practice split between visuality and written words. He has participated in collaborative exhibitions that include the São Paulo Biennial, the Mercosul Biennial, the Tomie Ohtake Institute, MAM-SP, CCSP, SESC, Pampulha Museum, MAC-Lions, MACBA, CGAC, Bonniers Konsthall and his latest individual gallery show called Escritexpográfica, was held at the Galeria Vermelho in 2017. His editorial practice includes works published by Edições Tijuana, par(ent)esis, Dulcinéia Catadora, Ikrek Edições, and others. 

Jonas van Holanda (1989 Fortaleza, Ceará) is a non-binary trans artist and a researcher of gender insurgency. He studied Visual Arts at Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro. His work is inspired by a subversion of semantic relations and the creation of aesthetic references via decolonial tools and discourse. Highlights from his most recent exhibitions include: Quando nós estamos? at the Tomie?Ohtake Institute (SP), Travessias Ocultas at the SESC Bom Retiro (SP) and Bestiário at CCSP. He worked during the 32nd São Paulo Biennial at the Restauro artwork-restaurant organized by Jorge Menna Barreto. He attended a residency at Casa Matony in La Paz, Bolivia, at the HANGAR Artistic Research and the Carnide Public Washhouse, both in Lisbon, Portugal. The artist won the 5th EDP Award from the Tomie Ohtake Institute in 2016. 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 is currently a panel judge at the 6th EDP Awards by the Tomie Ohtake Institute. He lives and works in Sao Paulo. 

Luise Malmaceda (1988 e Santa Maria - RS) is a member of the Tomie Ohtake Institute Research and Curatorship Center.?She has a Master’s in Art’s Esthetic and History from the University of São Paulo and is post-graduate in Arts History (FAAP) and also holds a degree in Visual Arts (UFRGS). Her research focuses on visual arts and experimental Brazilian culture from 1960-70. She was a researcher and art educator in several cultural institutions, including the Iberê Camargo Foundation, the Vera Chaves Barcellos Foundation and MAC-USP. She was the editor of Harper’s Bazaar Art magazine in 2015. Recently, she has been a judge for a number of cultural awards and offered free courses. 

Virginia de Medeiros (1973, Feira de Santana - BA) mainly works with video installations and audiovisual media, developing works that explore the envelope 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 in Arts Award Opens: November 28, at 8 pm

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

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