Screening
Adriana Varejão Selects
October 21–30, 2022
Metrograph, New York
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Adriana Varejão has curated a selection of films as part of a series copresented by Gagosian and Metrograph in the theater and online. The program will feature cinema exploring themes of eroticism, excess, and science-fiction fatalism.
Varejão explains: “In the late 1980s, the cineclub Estação Botafogo in Rio de Janeiro was my classroom. Film became my artistic universe. I immersed myself in the films of the period from different countries, including my own. With these screenings, I’m taking a poetic approach, bringing together films that have opened doors in my art. Themes of eroticism, excess, and science-fiction fatalism connect to my own work. I am attracted to sci-fi because it is possible to abandon linear temporality and the political and scientific limitations of the present. The baroque aesthetic, with which I so strongly identify, connects with the idea of artificiality, of excess for pure pleasure, and the creation of other possible realities. These aspects are present in my own art in the representations of flesh, in the imagined environments, in the historical parodies. The program also includes more recent remarkable Brazilian productions that resonate with my own thinking.”
Featured films include
And the Ship Sails On
The Baby of Mâcon
Bacurau
Blue
Caravaggio
Divine Love
The Fly
The Holy Mountain
In the Realm of the Senses
The State of Things
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Still from Bacurau (2019), directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho
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www.bienalamazonias.com.br
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Adriana Varejão, Mucura, 2023 © Adriana Varejão. Photo: Vicente de Mello
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Louise Neri
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Rizzoli Bookstore, New York
www.rizzolibookstore.com
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Adriana Varejão (New York: Rizzoli Electa, in association with Gagosian, 2022)
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Luisa Duarte
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Left: Adriana Varejão. Photo: Vicente de Mello. Right: Luisa Duarte
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