Marcelo Salum

Residency Programme: April 2017

Residency Programme (April 2017)

Stories x popcorn.

Marcelo is interested in art as a production of forms for organization, creating listening spaces and compiling “literature of everyday life”.

On previous work he has generated simple devices in busy public places where people were invited to stop and share recipes. This experiment can be considered as a starting point for conversations with strangers who spontaneously end up with sharing their interests and concerns.

At the next Open Studios Marcelo will create a new space for open exchange and thus learn first hand social context in which he will be involved for another month. A way to calibrate through the micronarratives is the beat of a society.

Residency Programme (May 2017)

Nidos

(Nests)

Installation

Marcelo is interested in art as a space for production of forms of organization, creating listening spaces

and compiling “literature of everyday life”.

For his last Open Studios he create a space for open exchange and thus learn first hand social context in which he is currently working. A way to calibrate through the micronarratives the beat of a society.

When thinking the way to display the narrative pieces he worked with the concept of nest, the place

composed by fragments which conform a safe space, this idea drives him to create a visual dispositive

which generates a tension between the warmth of the stories and an element which speaks about the

fragility of life.

BIO

Graduate as an architect from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of S. Paulo and Master in Visual Arts from the Faculty Santa Marcelina. He participated in exhibitions such as, O

DESEJO DO OTRO. Ophicina Space. São Paulo. BR/2016; RECORDED. Sesc Jundiaí. BR / 2016;

PRE-LOCATION. Occupation of a site for rent. São Paulo. BR / 2016; IN PROGRESS. Fabra i Coats.

Factory of Creació. Barcelona. ES / 2015; RECIPES. Museum of the Man of the Northeast. Recife. BR

/ 2014; CONTEMPORARY TRANSPORTERS. Memorial of Latin America / 29th. SP / 2010 Biennial;

WALL FOR PEACE. 20th Istanbul Art Fair. Istanbul. Turkey / 2010; FROM IMAGES TO THINGS. School São Paulo. SP.BR/2009; He also participated in audiovisual festivals such as MFL. FREE MOVIE SHOW. CCBB. Rio de Janeiro / SP / Brasília and BH. BR / 2014; FRAME FESTIVAL. City of Porto. PT / 2013; THE RESCUE OF 7A. ART. Barcelona. ES / 2013 and 14th. INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF VIDEODANZA. Buenos Aires. AR / 2013.