Sara & André: Claim to Fame
© Sara & André Flash #1 (Long-lasting inkjet printing, 100 x 126 cm), 2005
About The Exhibition
Exhibition Curator: Rui Goncalves Cepeda
WDWGN! is a programme of online exhibitions held at VASA Project that was conceived and is being led by Rui Goncalves Cepeda since 2013. This exhibition’s programme is first built around the idea of the body as a subject and how it stands in a shared space; and second, how the authority of “geography” can be a battleground between distinctive contemporary ideologies and contested conceptual territories.
The course of the present exhibitions has evolved around those two key conditions. Through the work of photographers and artists it has associated the physical and mental states of the body and of the being as if being in a “journey of phases in which the thought we are immersed in is invalidate” (borrowing from Prof. Irit Rogoff thoughts expressed in her essay What is a Theorist?, from 2006), while addressing the contested territories of contemporary photography in a digital-democratising age, with its limitations in terms of narrative capacity.
For the past decade Rui Goncalves Cepeda has engaged with visual narratives and stories brought by photographers and artists from different sides of the world. Including artists Jane and Louise Wilson, Rosangela Rennó, Kimiko Yoshida, Tatiana Macedo, and Wang Ningde. Crossing a broad geographical area he has contributed to the global conversation about the human condition and the stories of places where people come together in a relational manner.
In present exhibition, he will apply his critical perspective and interdisciplinary approach to further Sara & André’s presence in the public eye. Cepeda raises consciousness about problems surrounding the concept of ‘authorship’, the idea of ‘documentation’, and the notion of ‘validation'.
On VASA Exhibitions:
VASA Exhibitions over the years have provided a platform for individual and group exhibitions, collaborative exhibitions with various organizations and galleries and exhibitions that follow a particular theme or inquiry such as “Where Do We Go Now” curated by Rui Cepeda and the “Kharkiv School of Photography: Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics” curated by Igor Manko.
VASA Exhibitions are international and multicultural. The curatorial team has strived to present work that not only represents the photographers but also the social, historical and cultural. As an online international project, VASA works to engage various digital tools. Video, as an example, not only offers the potential for the presentation of works, it provides the opportunity and framework for the voice of the author to be seen and heard. Through image, text, sound and animation, VASA works to expand the exhibition paradigm and provide a rich experience for the viewer (as well as the author).
VASA Exhibitions provides a viewing and research environment by archiving all of the exhibitions in their entirety. For example, the viewer may view a 2009 exhibition as it was presented and not just traces of its existence.
VASA Exhibitions (a program in VASA) includes images, videos and sound works.