Donation of pieces from the Museum of Removals' collection to the National History Museum (© Museum of Removals collection).
In opposition to the objects collected from the rubble of Providência, the archaeological finds that a century ago had been thrown there as leftovers now performed singularity, flaunting the strength of those who, in a gesture of insubmission to gravity and oblivion, had returned to the surface.
David Hall, TV Interruptions: The Installation, 1971. Screenshot from Unity showing sound design. Programming Sang Hun Yu (© University of Dundee).
© The Kremer Museum
Assembling displays for the Introduction to the Third World installation at CCBB-RJ, 2011.
Perhaps the act of appropriation has an element of appreciation, but it is much more than that. Tutorship implies concern, but such response is not the only way (or the best one) to demonstrate care.
"Oracles" plate - Introdução ao Terceiro Mundo, 2011.
Since the Collection inherited a relatively random set of works and only recently implemented an acquisition policy, one cannot comfortably attribute to it the function of producing a historiography of art produced in the 20th century in Pernambuco. How, then, to deal with this condition?
