Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

For 30 years, Cao Guimara?es has documented fragments of his friendship with fellow artists. Friendship is a mosaic of domestic moments recorded in a variety of formats, from the computer screens, to Super8 and 35mm film to cassettes and old answering machine tapes. These audiovisual doodles are sometimes poetic, sometimes banal, and sometimes profound, mournful or uninhibitedly joyful. Above all, they are a celebration of spending time together and growing older.

Cao Guimarães works at the intersection between cinema and visual arts. With intense production since the late 1980s, the artist has his works in numerous prestigious collections such as Tate Modern (United Kingdom), MoMA and the Guggenheim Museum (USA), Fondation Cartier (France), Colección Jumex (Mexico), Inhotim (Brazil), Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Spain), among others. He participated in important exhibitions such as the XXV and XXVII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Brazil; Insite Biennial 2005, Mexico; Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil, USA; Tropicália: The 60s in Brazil, Austria; Sharjah Biennial 11 Film Programme, United Arab Emirates and Ver é Uma Fábula, Brasil, a retrospective with a large part of the artist's works exhibited at Itaú Cultural, in São Paulo. He directed twelve feature films: Amizade (2023), Santino (2023), Espera (2018), O Homem das Multidões (2013), Otto (2012), Elvira Lorelay Alma de Dragón (2012), Ex Isto (2010), Andarilho (2007), Acidente (2006), Alma do Osso (2004), Rua de Mão-Dupla (2002) and Fim do Sem Fim (2001), which participated in renowned international festivals such as Cannes, Locarno, Sundance, Venice, Berlin and Rotterdam. He had retrospectives of his films at MoMA, in 2011, Itaú Cultural, in 2013, BAFICI (Buenos Aires) and Cinemateca do México in 2014. In September 2017, he opened the largest exhibition and retrospective about his work in Europe, at the Eye Filmmuseum, in Amsterdam. He is represented by Galeria Nara Roesler, from São Paulo and Galerie Xippas (Paris and Montevideo).