Puerto-Rican artist Beatriz Santiago Muñoz at 34th São Paulo Biennial, Brazil

View of the exhibition “Oriana” by Beatriz Santiago Muñoz part of the 

34th Biennial of Sao Paolo’s partner institution. Photo : Everton Ballardin / Pivó

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz occupies the main space of Pivô with a selection of works from different periods of her career, which essentially investigates the possibilities and formats of the moving image. Her research takes place on the threshold between fiction and documentary and is based on post-colonial and feminist studies, in addition to experimental ethnography, to build a visual universe full of local mythologies, historical research and, above all, informed by direct contact and exchanges that establishes with its interlocutors, be they actors or non-actors.

The project, curated by Fernanda Brenner, is part of the 34th São Paulo Biennial program.

View of the exhibition “Oriana” by Beatriz Santiago Muñoz part of the 

34th Biennial of Sao Paolo’s partner institution. Photo : Everton Ballardin / Pivó

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz (1972) lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She received an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago in 1993 and an MFA in Film and Video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1997. She has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions during the past 15 years. Recently, she presented solo shows in Der Tank, Basel (Switzerland); Espacio Odeón, Bogotá (Colombia); PAMM, Miami (USA); and New Museum, New York (USA). Recent group exhibitions include Whitney Biennial 2017 (New York, USA) and 8th Contour Biennale (Mechelen, Belgium).

Fernanda Brenner (São Paulo, Brazil, 1986) is a curator, art critic and founder and artistic director of Pivô, in São Paulo. In parallel to her work at the institution, she works as a Latin American art consultant for the Kadist Art Foundation, she is part of the curatorial team at the Italian fair Artissima, she is a collaborative editor of the magazine Frieze and part of the Ordet platform development committee in Milan. Her most recent projects are the individual exhibitions República, Luiz Roque (2020), Avalanche, Katinka Bock (2019), both at Pivô and the group shows A Burrice dos Homens, at the Bergamin Gomide gallery, São Paulo (2019), Neither, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels (2017), co-curator of Caixa Preta, group show at Iberê Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre (2018). Her texts have already been published in a series of publications, including Textwork by the Fondation d'Enterprise Pernod Ricard, Art Review, Earthquake, Mousse, Cahiers d'Art, in addition to contributing with institutional, national and international catalogs, and monographs for the Cobogó publisher, MASP, Center Georges Pompidou, Fridericianum and MOCA Detroit.

View of the exhibition “Oriana” by Beatriz Santiago Muñoz part of the 

34th Biennial of Sao Paolo’s partner institution. Photo : Everton Ballardin / Pivó

The exhibition will be on view through November 7,2021 . Find gallery hours, and visiting information here