Manuel Herreros and Mateo Manaure: Mi Nombre es Venezuela

Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP)

November 27, 2026–April 4, 2027

This exhibition is the first in Brazil dedicated to the short documentary film TRANS (1982), directed by Venezuelan artists Manuel Herreros de Lemos and Mateo Manaure Arilla, and premiered in 1983. In addition to the film screening, the exhibition brings together a previously unseen collection of photographic materials related to its production, presenting the lives, subjectivities, and challenges faced by transgender and transvestite people in Caracas in the early 1980s. The work sensitively portrays urgent issues such as the criminalization of sex work, gender violence, and institutional marginalization. Contrasting with a detached perspective, the film proposes a poetic and political collaboration between directors and protagonists, whose relationships of intimacy, vulnerability, and power are reflected in the images. After decades of being invisible, the 16mm short film has recently been screened in international institutions.

Curated by Glaucea Helena de Britto, assistant curator, MASP, and Matheus de Andrade, curatorial assistant, MASP.

Manuel Herreros and Mateo Manaure: Mi Nombre es Venezuela is organized in partnership with the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA).