Ah, eu amo as mulheres brasileiras! – MAC Niterói (2023) / Curated by: Luiza Testa
Ah, eu amo as mulheres brasileiras! at MAC Niterói is the third edition of the exhibition, which has already been shown at apexart (NYC) and CCSP (São Paulo). This time, the exhibition brings together 34 works by 22 artists whose works discuss or emerge from the female body to challenge the eroticized stereotype about Brazilian women.
WHEN: from December 2, 2023, to February 25, 2024.
WHERE: at MAC Niterói. Mirante da Boa Viagem, s/nº – Boa Viagem, Niterói – RJ, 24210-390.
Luiza Testa holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (B.A.) in Language Studies from the University of São Paulo (USP) and a Master´s degree in Critical Theory (Critical Theory and the Arts) from the School of Visual Arts – New York, with the thesis The De-socialization of the Private Sphere in “A Room of One’s Own”.
She headed the art gallery onzedezesseis from 2010 to 2016. After obtaining her Master´s degree in 2017, she completed an internship in the Curatorial Department at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in New York. Upon her return to Brazil, she worked at MadaiArt and Magnetoscópio Produções, in exhibitions such as Ai Weiwei – Raiz and Anish Kapoor – Surge.
Since 2020, she has been actively involved in the curatorial area, in particular in projects which promote the social debate, as gender, sexuality, feminism and the digital arts. In addition to her work in the Visual Arts segment, Luiza is also a translator.
In 2023, the exhibition Oh, I Love Brazilian Women! will gain its first edition in Brazil.
In 2022, she presented the exhibition OBSCURA, at Centro Cultural Vila Itororó, in São Paulo.
In 2020, her exhibition Oh, I Love Brazilian Women! was one of four exhibitions selected, out of over 400 proposals, and was shown at apexart, in New York, in January, 2022.
Between 2018 and 2020, she worked as a producer and coordinator in exhibitions such as: and Ai Weiwei – Raiz, Anish Kapoor – Surge, Etnos – Faces da Diversidade and the Museu da Natureza, in the Serra da Capivara (PI) and at Magnetoscópio Produções, working in the development of museums and exhibitions.
In 2017, she was na intern at the curatorial department at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Nova York.
Between 2010 and 2016, she headed the Galeria Onze Dezesseis, where she was the curator of collective and individual exhibitions, promoting young and local artists.
