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How Do I Get There?SOLO | MIRE Public Art Program | Geneva, Switzerland
38th Panorama of Brazilian Art:
A Thousand Degrees
GROUP | Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo | São Paulo, Brazil
Black Ancient Futures
GROUP | MAAT | Lisbon, Portugal
Terceiro Mundo: A Dimensão Descoberta
SOLO | Pinacoteca de São Paulo | São Paulo, Brazil
CIRCA PRIZE: Class Of 2024
GROUP | CIRCA | London, United Kingdom
Toy Section
GROUP | Hangar Y | Meudon, France
Continuity Flaws: Rumors Of A Leak SOLO | TONO Festival, Laboratorio Arte Alameda | Mexico City, Mexico
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SOLO | Serpentine Galleries | London, United Kingdom
Continuity Flaws: The LoopholeSOLO | Outernet Arts, Outernet London | London, United Kingdom
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OMOIYARI: KEIKEN X GABRIEL MASSANDUO | The Photographers' Gallery | London, United Kingdom
CIRCA 20:24 manifesto, ‘<<Break Free>> Time’s Arrow Flies Forever Forward’
“The cycle will not break itself. Amid the earthquake of civil rights struggles and independence movements, Mariama Bâ wrote that it was the privilege of her generation to be ‘messengers of a new design,’ heralding a new era of liberation.
These messengers – freedom fighters, artists, and intellectuals – had the duty to become ‘inventors of souls’, said Aimé Césaire. Working relentlessly and passionately to raise consciousness and incite suppressed intelligence, the masses, freed from domination, held the power to shape worlds.
In 2024, we face a gathering storm: political, social, and ecological. Once more, cycles are ending and being reborn. The work of liberation remains far from finished. This year, earthly seasons will arrive as familiar chapters but bring with them haunting cold and unprecedented heat. Elections promise a new class of leaders, while genuine hope for change remains elusive. Do we, finally, stand on the cusp of breaking free from the past? What hangs by its last thread: our hopes or the ties that confine us?
Since 2020, CIRCA has stopped the daily cycle of advertisements on Piccadilly Lights more than one thousand times to mobilise the world’s greatest creative minds to broadcast unique works of art that consider our world circa now. Across the world – in New York, Tokyo, Seoul, Milan, Berlin, Los Angeles, Lagos, and elsewhere – these messages have sought to break the cycle thousands of times more.
Breaking free from our own curated cycle – commissioning a different artist each month – this year we slow the clock to make room within our programme for moments of liberation, elevated consciousness, and a more meaningful dialogue with global events. As our daily screening time moves forward by another minute to 20:24, we unveil a new, quarterly sequence of solar seasons that mark a new phase in our evolution. Entrusting each season to a single messenger: four pathbreaking artists charged with the responsibility to inspire new concepts of freedom.”
Multichannel Videogame Installation, 3D Animation, Digital Sculpting, color, sound.
by Gabriel Massan
Technical Direction and Animation
In collaboration with Carlos Minozzi
Agazero
LYZZA