Museum without Walls

Meeting/workshop with residents and allies for the creation of the Museum of Removals (© Luiz Claudio Silva / Museum of Removals collection).

Phi Books (© Antonopoulou & Dare).

Demolition of houses at Vila Autódromo by the city government (© Luiz Claudio Silva / Museum of Removals collection).

Dja Guata Porã exhibition, Museu de Arte do Rio, 2017-8.

In indigenous time there is a notion of sequence, a before and an after, but this does not imply a fixed boundary between the past and the future, which, instead of being separated by the present, would be both contained within the now.

untitled (Levino Fanzeres, oil on agglomerate, undated) - access in augmented reality

The processes that culminated in the independence of the former European colonies affected disciplines that, directly or indirectly, legitimized colonial power. The New Museology movement provoked actions that brought the museum closer to the community, making it possible to include groups related to the safeguarded collections within the institutions.

Reproductions of “artworks” which come with a glossary create a new perspective, add another meaning, or simply mix up the first meaning when facing what was initially appropriated by the artist.

Map of the Third World's south-southeast island, 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?