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			SESC Avenida Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil, 5 August – 5 September 2004 Mike was in Sao Paulo recently for the Forum Cultural Mundial and photographed 400 people at four locations around the city. He has created four faces that represent four aspects of the city as well as one supercomposite that represents the city as a whole. “For me the four locations tell in miniature the story of Sao Paulo as it is at the beginning of the 21st century. Santo André represents the new upwardly mobile working class rapidly transforming into a new middle class, Santo Amaro represents the new arrivals to the city from the north east of the country seeking a better life, Avenida Paulista is the established middle class and the Forum Cultural Mundial held at Anhembi is Sao Paulo’s window to the wider world. Brazil is often called the country of the future and it has been interesting to see the future of the future. As a child in South Africa, Brazil was held up as a utopia – a place where, impossibly it seemed, people of all races lived together without the problems of Africa or North America. So it was with a personal interest that I came to Sao Paulo to see a utopia made real for me through the process of meeting the individual people and a utopia then recreated in the new composite faces. The composite faces themselves are all remarkably similar attesting to the integration that has taken place in Brazil over the past 500 years. Interesting for me was that the faces are smiling – for the first time showing teeth – clearly the people of utopia are happy indeed!” For more info on SESC go to www.sescsp.org.br

			Fórum Cultural Mundial, São Paulo, Brazil, June 29 - July 3 2004 Mike will be exhibiting work and creating new pieces specifically for the World Cultural Forum on Globalization and Multiculturalism in São Paulo. Attending are leaders in their field including Koffi Annan, Nelson Mandela, Damien Hirst, Susan Sontag, Arundhati Roy, Jürgen Habermas, VS Naipaul and many others. Mike will produce a work during the Forum which will document the attendees as well as another piece which will take place at a location that more specifically represents São Paulo rather than the wider world. For more info on the Forum go to www.forumculturalmundial.org


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