Jonathas de Andrade: One to One, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Until August 25, 2019, the exhibition by Jonathas de Andrade will be open to the public at the MCA of Chicago. The exhibition is curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy, former Pamela Alper Associate Curator, with Nina Wexelblatt, Curatorial Assistant. It is presented in the Bergman Family Gallery on the museum's second floor. The work of Brazilian artist Jonathas de Andrade (b. 1982) evokes love, memory, and place. His photographs, installations, and videos often respond to the geography and culture surrounding Recife, the city in the northeast region of Brazil in which he lives and works. He grapples in particular with the promises, failures, and inequities in Brazil's Nordeste as the region undergoes rapid and often rocky urbanization. The exhibition debuts three new works, including Jogos dirigidos (Directed games), a film commissioned by the MCA that presents a playful exchange between members of the deaf community in the northeast of Brazil. Of his work the artist expressed: People always ask me the relation of fiction and nonfiction in my work. In this work I can see that my presence provoked the situation of inviting people to speak about themselves in front of a camera. And going to the fields, creating a dynamic—a physical dynamic—of an exercise that, in those, I could clearly see the engagement, their engagement as a community, how they were engaged, how they were close, how they were sort of a family. For hours and more information visit: https://mcachicago.org/Exhibitions/2019/Jonathas-De-Andrade