This year’s Curated Space, Follow My Moves, will be an exhibit of Self-Taught art from Brazil, curated by São Paulo-based Mateus Nunes, and will feature works by renowned artists such as Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato (1900–1995), Chico da Silva (1910–1985), Conceição dos Bugres (1914-1984), and Maria Lira Marques (b. 1945).
Mateus Nunes (b. 1997, Belém, Brazil) is a curator, art critic, and researcher from the Brazilian Amazon, based in São Paulo. Nunes holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Lisbon and is a postdoctoral fellow on History of Art and Architecture at Universidade de São Paulo, with previous postdoctoral fellowships at the Getty Foundation and Universidad San Francisco de Quito. In the intersections of text and image, he is interested in non-hegemonic systems of organizing, perceiving and understanding time, history, and influence. Having collaborated with galleries and museums worldwide as coordinating courses at Museu de Arte de São Paulo, his writings are published in Artforum, ArtReview, Carla, Flash Art, Frieze, Terremoto, and academic journals.