Vivian Caccuri

Vivian Caccuri investigates musical cultures and sound productions in a broad sense, proposing experiments with sound that go further than the auditory field and encompass the visual, the corporeal and the technological. Through objects, installations, performances, and original music, Caccuri creates situations that disorient the everyday experience and, consequently, interrupt perceptions sedimented in culture and ingrained in cognitive structures. The artist sheds light on historical and cultural conditionings that establish distinctions between noise, music, natural sounds, and silence. The constructions of Soundsystems in various materials and contexts highlights the collective meaning and, so often, the censorship of certain musical expressions. Thus, her work assumes a strong political sense. In recent years, mixing scientific data and fiction, Vivian Caccuri has investigated mythologies involving the mosquito and other insects. Narrated in embroidery and drawings, these works retell and update stories that describe the human aversion to these animals, both as epidemic agents and for their sound emissions.

Graduated in Fine Arts in 2007, she has held solos shows at Millan in 2024 and 2022, and at Galeria Municipal do Porto, Portugal; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, both in 2024; HUA International, Beijing, China, in 2023; Kunsthal 44Møen, Møen, Denmark, and at the New Museum, New York, USA, in 2022.

Caccuri has also been featured in shows such as Siluetas sobre maleza, Museo Jumex, Mexico City; The Disagreeement: A Theather of Statements, Neue Kunstverein, Vienna, Austria, and Crossings, Kasmin Gallery, in Nova York, EUA, in 2024; Attention After Technology, Kunsthall, Trondheim, Norway, 2023; And, in 2022, Brazilian Histories, at the MASP, and the 13^th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre; The Musical Brain, High Line Art, New York, USA, in 2020. In the previous year, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK, presented a commissioned work by the artist. Other noteworthy shows Caccuri has been in are the 32^nd Bienal de São Paulo, 2016; People’s Biennale – Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi & Kerala, India, 2018; 11^th Bienal do Mercosul, 2018; 33^rd Panorama da Arte Brasileira, MAM, São Paulo, 2013.

Caccuri has also collaborated with various musicians, such as Arto Lindsay, Gilberto Gil, Fausto Fawcett and Wanlov. The artist wrote and published the book O que Faço é Música, investigating the first vinyl records made by visual artists in Brazil, in 2013, which won the Funarte Prize for Critical Production in Music. She also participated in the book Making it Heard: A History of Brazilian Sound Art, a compilation of texts about sound in Brazilian art, published by Bloomsbury NYC. The artist won the awards: Sergio Motta Art and Technology Award, in 2011; Rumos Itaú Cultural, in 2008; and was nominated for the Future Generation Art Prize, 2017 and was a finalist for the PIPA Prize 2018.

Vivian Caccuri’s work is featured in the collections of the Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami Beach, USA.

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