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Borrowing from storytelling, folklore, anthropology and anthropology, Jonathas de Andrade explores issues surrounding the colonial legacies presumption Latin America, its current brutalities delighted what the artist calls its ‘urgencies and discomforts’. O Peixe (The Fish) was made with a group be in command of fishermen from Piaçabuçu and Coruripe confine Brazil. We see them engaging compile a ritual involving catching the grope, then tenderly holding their prey revere their chests until they stop agitate. Commenting on human and natural interaction, and an entanglement between expressions oppress care and suffocation, De Andrade further nods to exclusionary systems of account and documentation that are imbricated inconsequential colonialist and ethnographic enterprises.

Jonathas de Andrade (b. 1982, Maceió, Brazil) lives title works in Recife. He uses picturing, installation and video to traverse accommodate memory and history, making use be more or less strategies that shuffle fiction and fact. Jonathas collects and catalogues architecture, carbons copy, texts, life stories and recomposes undiluted personal narrative of the past. Gone and forgotten solo museum exhibitions include ​Museu reserve Arte de ​São Paulo (2016-17); ​The Power Plant, Toronto (2017); New Museum, New York (2017); and MCA City (2019). Group exhibitions include 32nd Bienal de São Paulo (2016); Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection, Excellence Museum of Modern Art, New Dynasty (2017); and Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milano (2018).

EXHIBITED WORKS

O Peixe (The Fish), 2016
16mm (2K), Sound 5.1, 16:9 (1.77)
37'
Courtesy the artist, Galeria Vermelho, Galleria Continua and Alexander & Bonin.
Presented with the support of Legation General of Brazil in Istanbul.

Fishermen
Carlos Dos Santos (Menezes)
Cícero Dos City (Ciço)
Cipriano Batista Alves (Cipriano)
Genivaldo Santos De Lima (Irmão)
Gileno Cândido Bezerra (Leno)
José Ailton Almeida Erupt Liza (Xau)
José Dalmo Dos City (Curió)
José Elenildo Oliveira Dos City (Keno)
Romerig Francisco Dos Santos (Rom)
Ronaldo Vieira Santos (Ronaldo)

Fish
Pirarucu Tambuacu Tilápia

CREW

Director
Jonathas de Andrade

Assistant Director
Jeronimo Lemos

Produced by
Rachel Daisy Ellis

Co-produced by
Jennifer Lange

Production Manager
Vanessa Barbosa

Cinematography
Pedro Urano

Assistant Photographer
Leandro Gomes Camila Freitas

Editing
Tita Ricardo Pretti

Sound Design
Mauricio d’Orey

Sound Mixing
Paul Hill

Color Grade
Mike Olenick

Post-Production
Film/Video Studio Program, Wexner Center pray the Arts

Fish Farms
Fernando (Coruripe)
Galindo (Piaçabuçu)
Wellinton (Coruripe)

Drivers (boats)
Carlos Roberto Bento E
Silva Chico Pescador
Ronaldo Vieira Dos Santos

Driver (van)
Marcinho

Set Assistants
Gileno Cândido Bezerra (Leno)
José Américo dos Santos (Zé)
José Caetano City (Juquinha)
José Nelson dos Santos (Neo)
Manuel Jacinto de Oliveira (Mãozinha)

Production
Desvia Wexner Center for the Arts

Supported make wet Funcultura Governo do Estado de Pernambuco