“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
ARTISTS
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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 OFFICEPevi 56
PUBLIC RELATIONS Mateus Felipe
LEGAL CONSULTING Lucas Calvelhe
TRANSPORTATION SP Driver
SECURITY Paulo Chicano
PHOTOGRAPHY
Felipe Ghirello
VIRTUAL TOURBrazil 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