Draft:Ana Vitória Mussi

Ana Vitória Mussi (born 1943) is a Brazilian contemporary artist working in photography and video. She is known as a pioneer in Brazilian video art with her conceptual approach encompassing photography, video, collage, objects and installations. She lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Biography
Ana Vitória Mussi studied visual art with Ivan Serpa from 1968 to 1971 and, later, photography with Kaulino and Ricardo Holanda at SENAC Rio de Janeiro in 1972-1973. She worked as a photo reporter throughout the 1980s covering high society events, politicans and celebrities for printed news outlets. In 1989 she went back to study silkscreen techniques at Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro. Starting from 1990, she dedicated herself entirely to her artistic practice using photography and other means of production and focusing on the ambiguity aroused by media images. The negatives she accumulated during her photo reporting years would become the primary material of her sculptural output throughout the 1990s in the form of reversed, undeveloped remnants of the photographic process. Her overall work is concerned with the entanglement of violence and entertainment, searching for a poetics of resistance and social criticism through her artistic language.

Her work was recognized with an acquisition prize delivered by the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro in 1973. She found world-wide acclaim through the inclusion of her work in the itinerant research exhibition "Radical Women: Latin American Art 1960-1985" curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Andrea Giunta with exhibitions at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2017), Brooklyn Museum in New York (2018), and at the Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo (2018).

Exhibitions
During the first part of her career, Ana Vitoria Mussi was widely exhibited throughout Brazil, and especially at insitutions in Rio de Janeiro with solo exhibitions at the Galeria do Banco Andrade Arnaud (1972); Galerio Contemporanea Rio de Janeiro (1991) and Centro Cultural Candido Mendes (1994). The touring exhibition "Radical Women: Latin American Art 1960-1985" organized in 2017-2018 at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2017); Brooklyn Museum, New York and Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo (2018) brought her work to the attention of an an international audience. In 2020 her work was included in the exhibition "Le supermarché des images" at Jeu de Paume, Paris, France.