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𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑶𝑩𝑺𝑰𝑫𝑰𝑨𝑵 𝑫𝑹𝑬𝑨𝑴 (2022) is a sound and text piece commissioned by @artseverywhere.ca part of the series Art-Life Rituals for Radical Tenderness curated by @danidemilia and Vanessa Andreotti in collaboration with the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective. 

One moonless night I slept with the obsidian mirror beside me. I physically felt in my lower abdomen a pain that burned me. It was as if I had a sun inside me, it was a portal. That’s when I began to feel the vibration of events, the sound of invisible beings. That was when I understood that time did not exist. 

☾ English and Portugues link in bio ☽ by @jonasssvan
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Songs For Ghosts, 2023 15’ 
Master CCC Diploma Jurys presentation 

Through a mirror of obsidian, oracle of time, a sun projects itself, flooding a dark room with its light. This very mirror becomes an instrument to explore the reflection of this sun, revealing unpredictable sensory layers. The performance generates a temporal fissure between subjective and collective colonial memory, aiming to uncover the blind spots of history in order to materialize its voices and ghosts.

Thank you for these 2 amazing years, all the dear peers, teachers and faculty team! @ccchead 

📷 Claudia Ndebele

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3 years ago
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Visage reimagines the “Mysterious Peacock” legend from Brazil’s Northeast, exploring time travel through the body and spiritual transformations. Inspired by Cordel literature and Octavia E. Butler, this audiovisual work invites audiences on a journey through fractured time and space.🦚🇧🇷
Created by Jonas Van and Juno B, it blends speculative fiction with anti-colonial and trans perspectives.

#Visage #SpeculativeFiction #AreYouForReal #ImmersiveArt by @jonasssvan
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2 years ago
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⭐️❤️ Bora Lulaaaaa ❤️⭐️ by @jonasssvan
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CREUSE L’IMMENSITÉ, DÉCHIRE LE RESTE
Exposition collective du 02.10 – 07.11.2026 
Projet artistique et curatorial mené par Neige Sanchez, avec Jonas Van, Marlo Duchêne, le duo Raphaël Bessette et Loïs Crémier.

Jonas Van
“Moving Towards Us”, 2022

Moving Towards Us imagine un corps en constante mutation, traversé par les changements hormonaux, le trauma et les vibrations des fantômes enfouis dans la terre. Entre poésie et image en mouvement, l’œuvre interroge la possibilité de transmuter la chair en son ou lumière, et envisage le corps comme une matière infini, au-delà de ses limites physiques, capable de se recomposer à travers d’autres formes, fréquences et temporalités. 

Jonas Van (*Fortaleza, BR, 1989) est artiste, écrivain et chercheur basé à Genève. Son travail se déploie à travers le son, la vidéo, l’installation et la poésie, en articulant théorie critique, fiction visionnaire et hantologie. Depuis une perspective trans, sa pratique envisage le monstrueux comme un espace de spéculation poétique et politique. Entre sci-fi, rêves et hantise, ses œuvres se construisent à travers des fractures linguistiques, des temporalités non linéaires et les frontières entre le vivant et le spectral.

Van a participé à des résidences au Mexique, en Bolivie, au Portugal, en Espagne, au Brésil et en Suisse. Il a reçu le EDP Tomie Ohtake Art Prize (Brésil) en 2016 et le Helvetia Art Prize (Suisse) en 2022, et a été finaliste des Swiss Art Awards en 2026. Il est titulaire d’un Master en Arts visuels de la HEAD – Genève, CCC (Critical Curatorial Cybermedia).

Son travail a été présenté aux Swiss Art Awards 2026, au 38e Panorama de l’Art Brésilien – 1000° et à la 3e édition de Frestas – Triennale des Arts, ainsi que dans des institutions telles que le FMAC Genève, l’EAC Montevideo, le MAC São Paulo, le MAM Rio de Janeiro, la Pinacoteca de São Paulo, La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, le MAC Panamá, le MIS Ceará et KADIST. Il est membre actif de Visarte Suisse.

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CREUSE L’IMMENSITÉ, DÉCHIRE LE RESTE
Exposition collective du 02.10 – 07.11.2026 
avec Jonas Van, Marlo Duchêne, le duo Raphaël Bessette et Loïs Crémier et Neige Sanchez

• Vernissage le 2 octobre dès 17h30.
à eeeeh!, Place du Marché 2, 1260 Nyon

L’exposition collective “Creuse l’immensité, déchire le reste” est un projet artistique et curatorial mené par Neige Sanchez, invitant à ses côtés des artistes faisant partie de sa famille choisie, ses paires, amixes, chercheureusexs et poètes : Marlo Duchêne, Jonas Van et Raphaël Bessette en duo avec Loïs Crémier. À travers la vidéo, la peinture, l’installation, la sculpture et la performance, ce projet investit l’abstraction, la matérialité et la fiction pour ouvrir un dialogue autour des existences trans et/ou non-binaires au-delà des régimes de représentation. Prenant comme point de départ la vision de José Esteban Muñoz comparant la queerness à cette chaude lumière qui nous caresse depuis un horizon inatteignable, l’exposition pose la question : et si cet horizon s’étendait déjà sous nos pieds, au-dessus de nos têtes, tout autour nous, en nous ? Et s’il était densité, épaisseur, comme un monde sous la surface des normes qui se déchirent ? 

Des lectures-performances de Jonas Van et Marlo Duchêne auront lieu durant le vernissage, et un cycle de lectures pensé en collaboration avec eeeeh, invitant Ruby Faure, ghalas charara, Niki Loroch et Mina Achermann, accompagnera la programmation. 

Lectures-performances durant le vernissage :
▪︎ “Spooky action at a distance”, de Jonas Van à 18h30.
▪︎ “La lumière ne se plie pas pour nous : Méthode”, de Marlo Duchêne à 19h.

Programme : 
• 2 octobre : Vernissage dès 17h30 avec des lectures-performances dès 18h30, suivies d’un repas prix libre

• 25 octobre : Cycle de lectures #1 en collaboration avec eeeeh!. Avec les lectures de Ruby Faure, ghalas charara, Niki Loroch, Mina Achermann, dès 15h

• 7 novembre : Finissage de l’exposition et Journée des Arts, avec des visites guidées de 10h à 15h

Ouvertures : 
7,21, 24, 25, 28, 31 octobre et le 4 novembre de 15h à 19h 
et sur RDV : eeeeh@eeeeh.ch

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Presenting finalist Jonas Van, born 1989, Art category. Working at the intersection of critical theory, visionary fiction, hauntology and ecology, his practice combines sound, video and poetry within immersive installations that construct monstrous narratives through linguistic and temporal fractures. Rooted in a trans anticolonial perspective, his work mobilises speculative and poetic languages to interrogate colonial structures and temporal regimes, drawing on a trajectory across Brazil, Latin America and Europe.

© Images
Portrait: © Jonas Van
1: Crystal Ages, 2018, Ametiste, resin, platre, acier, Photo: Patricia Araujo
2: Jonas Van & Juno B, VISAGE, 2024, Video installation with car furniture embedded in obsidian stone, 17’ stereo, Photo: Estudio em Obra
3: Jonas Van & Juno B, VISAGE, 2024, Video installation with car furniture embedded in obsidian stone, 17’ stereo, Photo: Estudio em Obra

#SwissArtAwards #JonasVan #SwissArt #SwissContemporaryArt #SAAFinalist
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Swiss Art Awards
16–21 June 2026
Halle 1.1, Basel

Design: @clioham @clemenspiontek by @jonasssvan
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5 months ago
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7 months ago
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Obsidian-carved emblem of the Pavão Mysteriozo with silver details on a car hood, part of VISAGE (2024) installation commissioned for the 38th Panorama of Brazilian Art: 1000 graus

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Emblema do Pavão Mysteriozo lapidado em obsidiana e detalhes em prata em capô de automóvel parte da instalação VISAGE (2024) comissionada pelo 38 Panorama da Arte Brasileira: 1000 graus 

Photos: Estudio em Obra  Light design and automation: @tellexotica
Obsidian lapidation: Joacy Freire
Architects: Alberto Rheingantz e @ttttizzz taken in MAC USP by @jonasssvan
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a year ago
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VISAGE, 2024
video installation

some imagens of our work commissioned for the 38th Panorama of Brazilian Art: Mil graus and @mamsaopaulo at @mac_usp 

Curators: @germanodusha , @thiago.paulasouza , @arianaynuala 
Architects: Alberto Rheingantz e @ttttizzz
Production: @bia_yk e @luciananemes
Acoustic Consulting: Léo Pires
Light design and automation: @tellexotica
Obsidian lapidation: Joacy Freire
Photos: Estúdio em obra taken in MAC USP by @jonasssvan
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a year ago
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Sharing some pictures from the exhibition Visible that took place at FMAC Genève @fmac.geneve from May 15 to June 15 this year, curated by the dears @lari_medawar and @dannieltostes . We participated with our video installation VISAGE (2024). Thank you to the entire FMAC team, production, setup, and curation 🩶

Photo: Thea Giglio

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Compartilhando alguns registros da exposição Visible que aconteceu no FMAC Genève do 15 de maio a 15 de junho desse ano, com curadoria dos queridos @lari_medawar @dannieltostes. Participamos com nossa video instalação VISAGE (2024). Obrigado a toda a equipe do FMAC, produção, montagem e curadoria 🩶 

Photo: Thea Giglio taken in Fonds d'art contemporain de la Ville de Genève - FMAC by @jonasssvan
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a year ago
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Excited to be showing for the first time at MASP! •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••Histories of Ecology at MASP São Paulo.
Group show 
5th of September till the 1st of February

About the show: 

At the Pietro Maria Bardi Building

Curators: Isabella Rjeille, curator, MASP and André Mesquita, curator, MASP.

The theme of the 2025 curatorial cycle, Histórias da ecologia (H1stories of Ecology) will be an international collective exhibition occupying five floors of the Pietro Maria Bardi building, MASP’s new space. In a context marked by intensifying climatic, political, territorial, and social crises, Histórias da ecologia investigates how artists, collectives, and activists from around the world respond to the present moment and understand the relationships between living beings, their creations, and the environment in which they live. The term “ecology” was chosen over the term “nature,” understanding humans as part of a complex ecosystem and not separate or hierarchically superior to it.

The exhibition is based on the understanding that ecology is a system of relationships. Organised into five sections, the exhibition will address different ideas of time as an organising element of life, as well as the effects of forced displacement and migratory processes caused both by extractive models of production and the effects of climate change. In addition, the exhibition will offer an in-depth look at the systems of interdependence between humans and non-humans, encompassing different ways of inhabiting the world that consider the complexity and interrelation of different forms of life.

Histórias da ecologia seeks to understand how art and society react and adapt to the environment throughout history, while inviting us to consider actions in the present and imagine possible futures. taken in MASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand by @jonasssvan
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a year ago
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