Past Events
ROSÂNGELA RENNÓ
Ring
24 November – 15 January 2010
Images
Biography
The Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art is pleased to present
works by artist Rosângela Rennó in an exhibition titled Ring.
The exhibition is part of the Brazilian Culture Month 2009,
which is organised by the Pharos Arts Foundation in cooperation
with the Brazilian Embassy in Cyprus. The opening will take
place on Monday 23 November at 8pm.
Rosângela Rennó's work is predominantly photography based,
although she rarely takes photographs of her subjects, instead,
she recasts and transforms appropriated photographic images. In
the past she has presented anonymous portraits compiled from
existing photographs - photographers' studios and even
photographs of prisoners' tattoos. Whilst she finds novel and
often politically charged ways of presenting the images, her
work is also profoundly humane, as the viewer finds themselves
imagining other people's lives, particularly those who are
marginalized or unacknowledged. For Rennó, “the 'stories of the
losers' are more interesting than the 'history of the winners'.”
Rennó's solo exhibitions include the Centro Cultural do Brasil,
Rio de Janeiro; the Museu do Chiado, Lisbon; the Australian
Centre for Photography, Sydney; the Săo Paulo Museum of Modern
Art; the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and the Appel
Foundation in Amsterdam. She represented Brazil at the 50th
Venice Biennale in 2003. Rosângela Rennó was born in Belo
Horizonte, Brazil in 1962. She lives and works in Rio de
Janeiro.
