Focused on the convergences between East European and Latin American artists during the 1960s and 1970s, the exhibition Redes Alternativas (Alternative Networks) recalls how photography was used as a strategic practice to overcome the censorship imposed by the dictatorships that once ruled these regions.
The show features names quite unknown to the general public like Clemente Padin, Anna Kutera, Gastão de Magalhães, or Dalíbor Chatrny—artists who used the photographic medium to document their performances and happenings, and fostered alternative practices in a context of restrained freedom of speech.
In the exhibition, the curator Cristina Freire emphasizes the use of independent networks of distribution, including regular postal service, for the dissemination of these images. “In this free flow of exchanges, the body and the actions of artists separated by geography, presented common tactics of symbolic resistance that articulated art and life, revealing even today, a compelling utopian potential.”
Sabrina Moura
Alternative Networks
Until February 24, 2012
MAC USP Cidade Universitária
Rua da Praça do Relógio, 190
São Paulo-SP, Brazil
