Museum without Walls

Stratigraphic Turbidities exhibition, by Yuri Frimeza - Museu de Arte do Rio, 2013 (© Wilton Montenegro)

Polivisão XLIV X4 (Maurício Salgueiro, mixed media, undated) - access in augmented reality

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?

DiMoDA 3.0 - 3LD, New York, June 2018. Work on display by Shane Mecklenburger.

David Hall, TV Interruptions: The Installation, 1971. Video documentation of VR experience presented at Besides the Screen Conference, Kings College, London, 2018 (© Adam Lockhart).

What happens then in the future if an artist, collector or gallery wishes to re-exhibit an artwork where the original equipment has not been collected or the equipment required is entirely obsolete and unavailable?

untitled (Álvaro Conde, oil on canvas, 1944) - access in augmented reality

Digitization of the fossilized skeleton of Mariliasuchus amarali with the Artec MHT.

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.