Galería Zielinsky is pleased to present the video No a la guerra by Vera Chaves Barcellos in room 3 of the gallery, from November 10 to December 18, 2021, on the occasion of the LOOP Festival. Developed under the impact of the Iraq War in 2003, the video shows the artist receiving imaginary slaps on her face while interspersing images of the war taken from different mass media. In No a la Guerra, the artist follows up on her investigation, where the manipulation and appropriation of the contents taken from the newspapers serve as material to carry out a series of critical and poetic proposals.
About the artist
Since 2009, Arxiu MACBA has kept the archives of the Nervo Óptico Fund in its Center for Studies and Documentation. Nervo Óptico was a Brazilian art collective in which Vera was one of the founders and which has been active between 1976 and 1978. Recently the works of Vera Chaves Barcellos (1938, Porto Alegre, Brazil) have been exhibited in the samples: The enemies of poetry: Resistances in Latin America (2021), core of the collection Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985, which was held at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, USA, Brooklyn Museum, USA, and Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil. In 2020-2021, her work became part of the collections of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil; MACBA - Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
