[Prelude to an Announced Death - Preservation Format 1]

Contemporary Art

1991

Rafael França
Brazilian, 1957-1991

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Rafael França
Title: [Prelude to an Announced Death - Preservation Format 1]
Place: Brazil (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1991
Reference Number: 2023-1303-PRS-1

Ela Bittencourt, “The Edgy and Lucid Video Art of Rafael França,” Hyperallergic, Jan. 25, 2022, as Prelude to a Death Foretold, https://hyperallergic.com/704908/the-edgy-and-lucid-video-art-of-rafael-franca/

Zürich, Migros Museum für Gegenwartkunst, United by AIDS, Aug. 8–Nov. 10, 2019, no cat no. (exhibition copy).
São Paulo, Galeria Jaqueline Martins, Requiem and vertigo, May 22–July 7, 2021, no cat. (exhibition copy).
Høvikodden, Norway, Henie Onstad Art Center, Every Moment Counts: AIDS and Its Feelings, Feb. 2–May 22, 2022, no cat. (exhibition copy).
Lyon, FR, La Biennale de Lyon, Manifesto of Fragility, Sept. 14–Dec. 31, 2022, no cat. no. (exhibition copy).
Screenings:
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Video as a Counter-Archive of AIDS, Dec. 11, 2013, no cat. (exhibition copy).

The estate of the artist; sold through Galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 11, 2023.

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