On August 28 at 5pm at the Federal University of Santa Maria, BIENALSUR 2019, the second edition of the cultural event of contemporary art from Argentina to the world, inaugurates a new headquarters of its unique cartography in Brazil, with the exhibition "Factors 6.0. Light _energy", which brings together a group of artists from Argentina and Brazil who problematize, in terms of sustainability, the concepts of energy and light in their works.
The Biennial, organized by the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF), is deployed across the globe, simultaneously, and until November, with exhibitions of 400 artists in more than one hundred venues - with which it works jointly and collaboratively - 43 cities in 20 countries.
On August 28th at 5pm at the Federal University of Santa Maria, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, will be the opening of the exhibition "Factors 6.0. Light_energy" with works by Luiz Duva (BRA), Rosangela Leote (ARG), Gabriel Gendin (ARG) and Gisela Biancalana (BRA), Leo Nuñez (ARG), Marlin Velasco (ARG/VEN), Raquel Fonseca (BRA), Sabrina Barrios (BRA/USA) and Sandra Rey (BRA).
The word energy can be understood as a vital force of the universe, a potential flow of nature, a sensory experience that makes the artistic phenomenon a dynamic project.
The artistic making, linked to light, can manifest itself as activation, distribution, pollution or as ecological and social resistance: what interests us is how contemporary artists problematize these questions that emerge from their practices.
Curated by Nara Cristina Santos (BRA) - Universidad Federal de Santa María and Mariela Yeregui (ARG) - Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF).
The Factors Festival is organized by the Research Laboratory in Contemporary Art, Technology and Digital Media (LABART) and with the support of the Postgraduate Program in Visual Arts of the University of Santa María (Brazil).
