VEZA 02 New Media Focus
Above: Installation view of VEZA 02 at SP–Arte in São Paulo, Brazil, 6-10 April 2022. Photographs by Jessica Mangaba and courtesy of Niio
SOUTH SOUTH’s second edition of VEZA focussed on digital art and the remarkable possibilities of new media, as well as our core activity of facilitating new connections within the cultural ecosystems across the Global South and beyond. Galleries from 25 cities spread across five continents came together to present a selling exhibition of important video artworks at SP–ARTE (Sāo Paulo) and simultaneously online here. This marked SOUTH SOUTH’s transition into a hybrid model through collaboration with regional fairs. The presentation was powered in partnership with Niio — a state of the art platform which enables new media to be preserved, certified and seamlessly acquired through blockchain technology, offering collectors the complete package for digital art and encouraging new audiences to collect new media with confidence. VEZA 02’s focus on new media reflects the increasingly important role played by digital art in the post-pandemic world in its potential to communicate and connect across borders at a time of ongoing travel disruption, particularly in the Global South.
Featured artists
Patfudyda / Abre Alas 17
A Gentil Carioca, São Paulo / Rio de Janeiro
Coco Fusco
Alexander Gray Associates, New York City / Germantown
Luis Enrique López-Chávez
Bode Projects, Berlin
Gigi Scaria
Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
Jackie Karuti
Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi
Joiri Minaya
Embajada, San Juan
Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca
Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo / Rio de Janeiro
Eder Santos
Galeria Luciana Brito, São Paulo
Nicolás Paris
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
Nalini Malani
Galerie Lelong & Co., New York City / Paris
Kiluanji Kia Henda
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg / Cape Town / London
Peter Nelson
Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
Zheng Chongbin
INKstudio, Beijing
Hardeep Pandhal
Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai
Wura-Natasha Ogunji
kó, Lagos
Minerva Cuevas
kurimanzutto, Mexico City / New York City
Yazan Khalili
Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai
Letícia Ramos
Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo / Brussels / New York City
Tsubasa Kato
MUJIN-TO Production, Tokyo
Amina Benbouchta
OH Gallery, Dakar
Jorge Méndez Blake
OMR, Mexico City
Miguel Angel Rios
Sicardi Ayers Bacino, Houston
Ayrson Heráclito
Southern Stars Projects, London
Charles Lim Yi Yong
STPI – Creative Workshop & Gallery, Singapore
Ryoko Aoki
Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
Sara Ramo
Travesia Cuatro, Madrid / Guadalajara / Mexico City
Atul Bhalla
Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
VEZA New Media Fund
Inaugurated this year, the VEZA New Media Fund enables a museum with a Global South focus to acquire media works with a significant budget for their collections. The Fund is supported by Niio and SOUTH SOUTH. This year’s beneficiary is El Museo del Barrio, New York’s leading Latino cultural institution. Through the fund, the museum acquired two new works, by Cuban-American artist Coco Fusco (Alexander Gray Associates) and Dominican-American artist Joiri Minaya (Embajada).
Partners
Niio is the most complete, open, and yet discerning digital art platform. Their ever-growing library of the finest digital and video art includes NFTs – all display-ready in the highest quality possible through the Niio app – and ready to stream or purchase. Niio supports more than 6,000 global artists – as well as leading galleries, museums, and curators – with tools to distribute, showcase and preserve their work. Through their platform and over the blockchain. Privately and publicly. The Niio 4K pro art player can turn any display into a digital art canvas and their exclusive relationship with Samsung Displays expands their reach worldwide.
El Museo de Barrio was founded in 1969 in New York City by artist and educator Raphael Montañez Ortiz and a coalition of Puerto Rican parents, educators, artists, and activists reacting to the indifference of mainstream cultural institutions. Since its inception, El Museo has been committed to celebrating and promoting Latino culture, thus becoming a cornerstone of El Barrio and the leading latino art institution in the United States. El Museo’s permanent collection of over 8,000 objects spans more than 800 years of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino art, including pre-Columbian Taíno artifacts, 20th century and 21st century drawings, paintings, sculptures and installations, as well as prints, photography, documentary films, and video.
