“Love is hard work.” Corita Kent

MANIFEST HORNYNESS

We have never been a straight line. From the beginning, we have been a vortex: a spiraling force that mixes and reinvents, confuses categories, breaks down boundaries, and shifts centers. We persist in going against the grain of norms, committed to giving substance to what others try to erase, reaffirming our alliance with the visceral and inalienable freedom of expression.

In times of moral vigilance and symbolic censorship, when the world once again raises its primers, Vórtice takes a stand against discourses that tame the senses and hierarchize affections—not out of mere rebellion, but because we know that desire is sovereign. It manifests itself in the body, though it is not limited to it. It circulates through each work, takes shape in language, and invites us to become other.

It is because we desire that we act.

In this fourth edition, we brought together 123 participants from seven countries—artists and collectives—with works that shake certainties. People who create from diverse impulses, aware that freedom is a state built by existing in public with integrity, not a right granted. People who transform lust into plasticity, dissent into aesthetics, and understand risk as part of the tension inherent in artistic creation. No one here apologizes: however regulated it may be, the body is still the purest space for invention.

If people still ask whether this is art, perhaps the question should be: what are we trying to silence when we deny that it is? What is at stake when we decide what can and cannot be appreciated?

The Vortex does not provide easy answers. It persists. And the more you try to contain it, the more it opens up and consumes everything around it. Desire—yes, desire—is our manifest destiny. It is not about fulfilling a destiny, but about making it pulsate.

With courage, color, and presence.

LEONARDO MACIEL

LISTEN TO THE PLAYLIST

ARTISTS

ARTISTS ✶

ADRI A.

ALAM LIMA

ALBERTO BONI

Alessandro Correa

Alexander Tavares

ALLAN RIBEIRO

ANA ABBOTT

ALBUQUERQUE TAX

André Medeiros Martins

ANDRE RIJUN

ANGELU KYNK

ANTONIO TEIXEIRA

AUGUSTO LACERDA

BITO

Camila Koschdoski

CAPTIVITY ART

CÉSAR

CAT KENNEL COLLECTIVE

DAN MASCHIO

DANI FERREIRA

DAVI AGUIAR

DHYOGO OLIVEIRA

Diogo Santos

DUDA BREDA

Eberson Teodoro

Érika Miglioli

ERIKSON VERÍSSIMO

Felipe Fokz

Felipe Migueis

FERNANDA BIZON

FERNANDA D’BOER

FERNANDO CARPANEDA

FLOPES

G. JUAREZ

GAB SÁ EARP

GABRIELA PEDERIVA

GABRIELA SIMIONATO

GEANE LOUBACK

GUSTAVO MARCASSE

GUSTAVO VINAGRE

Gustavo Diaz

HEITOR SILVA

IGOR MARCONDES

INDIARA NICOLETTI
& SEHT ZHAN

Isabela Hirata

JOÃO G. JUNIOR

JOÃO PAULO BOTELHO

Joe Nicolay

John Coletti

JOHN TOZZI

Jorge Hynd

JULIO LEÃO

LEANDRO DÁRIO

LORD

LUDIMILA RUSSO

MANO MARTINEZ

MARA CUNHA

MARCELO CAETANO

MARCELO SALUM

MARCIO JUNQUEIRA

MARCONDES FH

MARCOS NASCIMENTO

MARIA BARBOSA

Mariana B. Zanelli

MARIANA PARREIRAS

MARINA LUÍSA

Marina Prochanka

MARINA ZARDO

MARTÍN TOYÉ

MATEUSR

MICHAEL EPPS

MICHEL ARANTES

MICHELE MANOEL

Natalia Kuriukina

GRANDSON RICKLI

NEURIALAN

NIKI NISHI

Nina Miyamoto

NOAH C. RIBEIRO

THE HOLY ENEMY OF EVIL

OLENKA NECKLACES

PABLO BRAZIL

Pablo Lozano

PEDRO BAHIA

PEDRO LEÃO

PEDRO LEOBONS

PEDRO PEREIRA

PIETRO SPIRITO

SHARP PROSE

Queiroz Maria

RAFAEL BECK

RAFAEL DAMBROS

RAFAEL MESQUITA

REGIS AMORA

RENATO DE CARA

RICARDO AYRES

RICARDO VELMOR

Robert Siegelman

RODRIGO BARRALES

RODRIGO TURRA

RONDINELLI LINHARES

ROOM04 POLE

ROSÂNGELA GAYU

SAULO DE ALMEIDA

SHER SANTOS

SHIRLEY PRADO

Sidney Amaral

Slava Mogutin

SOH

TÁTA PEREIRA

UEGILLYS KEYLLOR

VERONICA SPNELA

Victor Martins Dias

VIVIANE CARDELL

VYVY VANAZZI

Wagner Vidal

WALLACE LAMB

WASABI

WILSON

COSMIC XOXOTAS

ZAIA ANGELO

ZANOTTO

PARALLEL PROGRAMMING

CURATORS
Leonardo Maciel
Paulo Cibella

TEXT
Leonardo Maciel

PRODUCTION
Leonardo Maciel
Paulo Cibella

PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE
Daniel Viana
Dislexa
Érika Miglioli
Rafael da Silva
The Handsome Lucky
Willian Martin

GRAPHIC DESIGN
Leonardo Maciel
Rico Lins + Studio
Sidney Secolo

EDITING
Leonardo Maciel
Paulo Cibella


BUFFET Abdul Arabic Cuisine
Daniela Lima
Graça e Cia.
Isadora Verissimo


PRESS OFFICE
Pevi 56


PUBLIC RELATIONS Mateus Felipe


LEGAL CONSULTING Lucas Calvelhe


TRANSPORTATION SP Driver


SECURITY Paulo Chicano

PHOTOGRAPHY
Felipe Ghirello


VIRTUAL TOUR
Brazil 3D

DJs
Daniel Peixoto
Demachki
Leandersson
Patrick
Seht
Transvegana

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Alexandre Fehr
Corita Kent
Leandersson
Letícia Suaréz
Mário Loureiro
Philip Philip Haji-Touma
Paulo Barão
Tiago Carvalho
Tulio Massoni
Vitória Pecora

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