VIP PROGRAM | ESTE TERTULIA | Cão Guimarães
Verónica Cordeiro, Curator (Brazil, Uruguay)
in conversation with Cão Guimarães, Artist (Brazil)

Cao Guimarães (Brazil)
Works between cinema and the visual arts. With an intense production since the late 80's, his works have been collected by prestigious names such as Tate Modern (United Kingdom), MoMA and the Guggenheim Museum (USA), Fondation Cartier (France), Jumex Collection (Mexico) , Inhotim (Brazil), Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Spain).

Veronica Cordeiro (Brazil, Uruguay)
Is the curator of the Photography Centre of Montevideo (CdF) since January 2013, where she commissioned new work by Rosângela Rennó (2011), Dias & Riedweg (2013), among others. Co-curator of the Uruguay Pavilion at the 55th Biennale di Venezia (2013), recent curatorships include residencies and survey exhibitions of Cao Guimarães, Tamara Cubas, Ernesto Vila. With the support of ICI-NY in 2011 she founded Surcontexto, an organization devoted to researching curating in trans-disciplinary and ethnographic contexts. She writes regularly for catalogues and magazines and participates in the Jury of prestigious prizes in Uruguay, Argentina, Canada and Holland.