With the sponsorship of the British Council, curator Tereza Arruda has put together Transmission Cardiff/São Paulo, an exhibition of photography, video presentations and life art presentations at Espaço Anexo. This is the first time São Paulo has put on an exhibition of contemporary, emerging Welsh art.

For years Tereza de Arruda has been interested in the work being produced by a group of Cardiff-based artists who have given the local scene a new boost. The exhibition focuses on the human body as protagonist of daily experiences, sustaining and transposing in itself all the dreams, uncertainties and anguish of modern living.

tactileBOSCH
The exhibition shows work by artists from Cardiff’s new emerging art centre, tactileBOSCH. Set up by Kim Fielding, who returned to his hometown after many years in the US, the space has become a point of reference in the UK. Originally a Victorian laundry, the space has been turned into the ideal venue for joint art production.

It has taken just a few years for tactileBOSCH to gain a firm foothold in the art world, thanks to the different group and individual exhibitions it has organized, as well as its artistic exchanges. Its resident artists are currently organizing projects in the USA, England, Brazil, Germany, Norway and Cuba. Each year, a large international exhibition is put on not only in the tactileBOSCH space but also at other of the city’s studies and galleries. The studio’s activities are starting to have nationwide repercussions, attracting artists from all over the UK to Cardiff.

The human body in the centre of art
The tactileBOSCH artists develop their own work, put on exhibitions at private galleries, lecture at the art college, coordinating the work of their colleagues. “Though each artist develops their own work using their own artistic tools, there is a certain common ground in the artistic language: the representation of the human body and the actual human being in different situations of modern life,” explains curator Tereza de Arruda.

Most of the artists studied at the Cardiff School of Art and Design. At this institution, performance is one of the most popular subjects, which is why local art tends towards this kind of artistic expression. “Performance has started to be used as an art tool but not always as a final work. The artists rework this stage of their production on video or using photography and this becomes the final piece,” comments Arruda.

Transmission Cardiff/São Paulo
Espaço Anexo – R. Barão do Bananal, 947
22 September to 12 November

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