The collective exhibition The Course of the Sun

DIASPORAS, COLLECTIVES AND MIGRATIONS. THE EXHIBITION IN GOMIDE

The group exhibition O curso do sol (The Course of the Sun) is organized by the Brazilian gallery Gomide&Co, in collaboration with the curator Yudi Rafael and the researcher and artist Roberto Okinaka.

O curso do sol seeks to unravel artistic narratives related to the Japanese diaspora in Latin America. To do this, it brings together forty artists whose works are intertwined with Japanese visual culture based on local cultural and political references.

In the words of Luisa Duarte, artistic director of Gomide&Co: “O curso do sol reaches the world at a historical moment in which diasporic movements have become a central element to understand our turbulent present. At the same time that we see how borders are blurred by financial flows that know no borders, xenophobic nationalisms spread throughout the planet, giving rise to a present characterized by a regressive desire for separation. A multitude of landscapes made of walls, fences and guarded borders engenders an obtuse cut that says: here, us, there, the others. This communion by similarity, in turn, brings with it a sectarian search guided by ideas of purity and exclusion, one of the symptoms of which is repulsion towards the figure of the foreigner.”

Artists participating: Ioitiro Akaba, León Ferrari, Ubirajara Ferreira Braga, Tikashi Fukushima, Oswaldo Goeldi, Tomoo Handa, Kenjiro Ikoma, Toshiko Ishii, Soko Ishikawa, On Kawara, Tomoshigue Kusuno, Sachiko Koshikoku, Wesley Duke Lee, Manabu Mabe, Akinori Nakatani, Ismael Nery, Rivane Neuenschwander, Kimi Nii, Luis Nishizawa, Hisao Ohara, Tomie Ohtake, Tsukika Okayama, Alina Okinaka, Massao Okinaka, Gabriel Orozco, Kazuya Sakai, Mira Schendel, Masayo Seta, Walter Shigeto Tanaka, Alice Shintani, Flávio Shiró, Kimiko Suenaga, Shoko Suzuki, Yoshiya Takaoka, Yuji Tamaki, Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, Waichi Tsutaka, Adriana Varejão, Alberto da Veiga Guignard, Kazuo Wakabayashi, Yuli Yamagata, Utagawa Yoshitora and Megumi Yuasa.

The course of the sun. Collective exhibition.

Until November 14, 2023.

Gomide&Co. Avenida Paulista, 2644, São Paulo, Brazil.