Vivian Caccuri

Brazilian artist, lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. Vivian Caccuri experiences sound in unusual compositions that disorient the conventional arrangement of everyday experiments. Sound systems, microphones, speakers, cables, chains, networks, lamps, candles and mosquitoes are some of the elements present in her installations and performances, which move visible and invisible, audible and inaudible layers. Vivian's investigations touch the body, memory and history, and from the composition of sculptural installations and trails - synchronized with specific circumstances of each of her researches - the artist builds wearable objects, delicate fabrics sewn and interwoven with threads and lines, stones and beads, which depict mysterious landscapes, as well as sound sculptures that emanate sometimes delusions and noises, sometimes melodies and mantras. In her works - bi, three-dimensional and with sound - the materials are malleable and soft for a period that may or may not reach rigidity, and vice versa. Vivian uses thinning tools, her music connects temporal dimensions that dig the space. Weight, volume and balance - dear to sculptural questions - embody the author's experiments and creations, which vary in scale, from the most imperceptible to highly vociferous productions.

In 2022, presented the solo exhibition “Mosquito Revenge” at Kunsthal44Møen, Denmark, “The Shadow of Spring” in collaboration with canadian artist Miles Greenberg, at New Museum, New York, and took part in the 13th Mercosul Biennial – “Trauma, Dream and Escape”, in Porto Alegre. In 2021, she was part of several group exhibitions in São Paulo, Praga, Lisbon, Vyska and Le Havre. In 2020, she participated in the "Social Movements and Feminist Future" group at the "Seismic Movements" exhibition, at the fifth edition of the Dhaka Art Summit, in Bangladesh, India, “The Musical Brain” at High Line in New York, “Mecarõ - Amazonia in the Petitgas Collection” at MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain in France, “BRASIL! Focus sull'arte brasiliana contemporanea" at Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy, and “And Say The Animal Responded?”, at FACT, London, UK. In 2019, she exhibited the solo show “Febre Amarela”, at A Gentil Carioca gallery, Rio de Janeiro, “O Xarope do Novo Mundo & A Mão da Febre (New World Syrup & A Fever Hand)” at EartH Gallery, London, “A Soul Transplant”at Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg , Sweden and took part in the group shows "The Fever of Yellow" at Serpentine Galleries, London and was one of the finalists for the Marcantônio Vilaça Award. In 2018, her solo shows were “Água Parada”, in the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, in Rio de Janeiro, and Galeria Leme, in São Paulo and the group shows were “Mosquito Shrine” at Fort Kochi Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India, “11th Mercosul Biennial” in Porto Alegre and “Ojalá” at the Carlsbad Museum, Carlsbad, USA. In 2017 she participated in the group shows “Vivemos na melhor cidade da América do Sul” at the Iberê Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre, “Charivaria” at CentroCentro, Madrid, “Sonic Rebellion” at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Detroit, USA, “Buried in the Mix” at MEWO Kunsthalle, Memminghen, Germany, “Festwochen” in collaboration with Daniel Lie in Vienna, Austria, “Future Generation Art Prize” at Palazzo Contarini Polignac (parallel to the Venice Biennale), “Black Atlantic” at the Goethe Institute, Rele Gallery in Lagos, Nigeria, and the “Future Generation Art Prize” at the Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine.

Vivian Caccuri's works are part of the collections of the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Pérez Art Museum Miami and ICA Miami, USA.

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