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ARCHITECTURAL ECHOTONES. A POETICS OF THE SURROUNDS is a project conceived by SAVVY Contemporary in the framework of the 36th São Paulo Biennale’s travelling exhibition in Berlin and invites the Brazilian collective Vilanismo to take over the Wedding art space. Conceived as a parallel presentation of the biennial, this project joins a chorus of voices, engaging with diverse audiences across Berlin, and provides a platform to reflect further on a central question posed by the biennial, notably, how can we rethink humanity as a verb and as a living practice that can renegotiate and dismantle prevailing asymmetries?
Taking this cue as a departure point, Architectural Echotones invites the collective Vilanismo, which took part in the São Paulo iteration, to present their works for the first time in Berlin. Founded in 2021 in São Paulo, Vilanismo, a brotherhood composed of ten Black artists all inhabiting several peripheries of the city, emerged not only as an artistic collective but also as a counter-movement. One that seeks, in a climate of exclusion and abusive extraction, to challenge historical stereotypes imposed on black bodies, and create spaces of resistance and gathering rooted within …
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Image above: Vilanismo, Photo from Cortejo Negro, 2024, Courtesy of the artists, Photo credit: Rodrigo Zaim.
