Check Out The New Museum's Newest Exhibition: 'O Peixe'

LOWER EAST SIDE, NY — The New Museum's newest exhibition, featuring "one of the most promising Brazilian artists of his generation" Jonathas de Andrade debuted Wednesday.

"O Peixe" (translation: The Fish) is de Andrade's first solo museum presentation in the U.S. De Andrade uses photography, video and installation to capture everyday life in Brazil, specifically how the country's national identity is shaped by labor conditions, colonialism and slavery. He regards these as the country's “urgencies and discomforts.”

The film tells the story of fishermen in the State of Alagoas, in the northeast region of Brazil. The absence of language and text in the film invites the audience to form a range of interpretations.

The New Museum website's describes the exhibit as:

"De Andrade’s video, O peixe [The Fish] (2016), borrows the style of ethnographic films that anthropologists make to record the cultures and traditions they study. In a series of vignettes shot on 16 mm film, we witness what seems to be an intimate ritual among fishermen in a coastal village in northeastern Brazil. De Andrade’s camera follows individual fishermen as they catch and then hold their prey to their chests. Alternating expressions of domination and pathos, the fishermen forcefully yet tenderly embrace each fish until it stops breathing."

You can buy tickets in advance for the show here.

Visit the New Museum at 235 Bowery between Rivington Street and Price Street from: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday.

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