Vivian Caccuri Biography

The artist sheds light on historical and cultural conditionings that establish distinctions between noise, music, natural sounds, and silence. The constructions of Soundsystems in various materials and contexts highlights the collective meaning and, so often, the censorship of certain musical expressions. Thus, her work assumes a strong political sense.

In recent years, mixing scientific data and fiction, Vivian Caccuri has investigated mythologies involving the mosquito and other insects. Narrated in embroidery and drawings, these works retell and update stories that describe the human aversion to these animals, both as epidemic agents and for their sound emissions.

Graduated in Fine Arts in 2007, she has held the shows Descomprimidos, at Millan, São Paulo, Brazil, Mosquito Revenge, at Kunsthal 44Møen, Møen, Denmark, and The Shadow of Spring, in collaboration with Miles Greenberg, at the New Museum, New York, USA, all in 2022. The artist has also participated in several group exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, among which are, in 2022, Brazilian Histories, at Museu de Arte de São Paulo, MASP, the 13th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre. In 2020, the artist participated in Freedom is outside the skin, Kunsthal 44Møen, Møen, Denmark, and The Musical Brain, at the High Line Art, New York, USA. In the previous year she presented a work commissioned by the Serpentine Galleries in The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish with Plants, London, UK. Other noteworthy exhibitions include the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo: Living Uncertainty, in 2016, the People's Biennale – Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 2018, Kochi & Kerala, India, the 11th Bienal do Mercosul, in 2018, and the 33rd Panorama de Arte Brasileira at the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, in 2013.READ MORE

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