Benedito Ferreira + Vardit Goldner
August 7 - 20, 2022
“Antidote” by Benedito Ferreira
Above stills from Antidote
Tell us about the artwork. What makes it unique?
“This simple video is the search for the identity of the children of the past who occupied a tree-lined square in the center of Goiânia, central region of Brazil. This square no longer exists, as it was taken over by the advance of the city and agribusiness.”
About the artist:
Born in Itapuranga, Brazil, 1989. Benedito Fierreira lives and works in Goiânia, Brazil. He is a visual artist and researcher. His artistic investigations are centered on image as writing, on the poetics of archives, their montage and the erasure of limits between “document” and “fiction”. Benedito works include filmmaking, objects, installations and photography, without no hierarchies between media. In recent years, he collaborated with institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art of Goiás (MAC GO), the Circle of Plastic Arts of Coimbra (Portugal), The Room Projects (France), Art Space BLECH for Contemporary Art (Germany) and Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (South Korea). His work is part of the collection of the Contemporary Art Museum of Jataí (Brazil), the Pinacoteca Municipal Miguel Dutra São Paulo (Brazil) and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Benedito was awarded the Rumos Itaú Cultural Award 2019-2020. PhD student in Arts at the State University of Rio de Janeiro.
“Swimming Lesson” by Vardit Goldner
Above still images from Swimming Lesson
Tell us about the artwork. What makes it unique?
“A “mockumentary” film in which I teach Bedouin girls to swim in a waterless “pool”. It aims to stimulate thought about the lack of swimming pools accessible to Bedouins in Israel, actually denying them swimming lessons and causing frequent cases of drowning. There are over 200,000 Arab-Bedouins living in the Negev region of Israel today, with access to one single swimming pool that was inaugurated in the town of Rahat in 2017. Bedouins are not allowed to enter swimming pools in Jewish localities.”
About the Artist:
Vardit Goldner is a photography and video artist. She's engaged in documenting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, mainly its effects on daily life of Palestinians, and addresses social issues. She studied at the Faculty of Arts – Hamidrasha at Beit Berl College, Israel, completing the Postgraduate Fine Arts Program, and she holds an M.Sc. in physics.