Mabe Bethônico’s artistic practice involves long-term research projects resulting in visual and sound pieces, installations, lectures, publications, and websites, using documentary sources and field recordings. Her work has been exhibited at Centro Cultural São Paulo, in collaboration with Anselm Jappe (2012), in La Revanche de L'Archive Photographique, Centre de Photographie, Geneva (2010); Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan, Puerto Rico (2009); the 28ª Biennial of São Paulo (2008); the 27ª Biennial of São Paulo (2006); Subversiones Diarias - MALBA, Buenos Aires; Panorama da Arte Brasileira, MAM Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paolo; Telling Histories, Kunstverein, Munich (2003). She is Professor in Fine Arts at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. In 2013 she developed a project at the Museum of Ethnography of Geneva with support from CNPq - the National Research Council of Brazil. She has organized the event Provisões: Uma Conferência Visual [World of Matter] at Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, and the book of same title (2013). Bethônico holds a MA and PhD in Fine Arts from the Royal College of Art, London (2000).
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