"Oracles" plate - Introdução ao Terceiro Mundo, 2011.
Perceptions of the real in museums run the risk of creating a reality of fragmented discourses that, when removed from their original context, prevent us from perceiving an another reality, entirely diverse from our own, building a distorted image of the "other".
David Hall, A Situation Envisaged: The Rite II (Cultural Eclipse), 1988-90. VR experience presented at the NEoN Festival, Dundee, 2017. Development by Rhoda Ellis, curating by Adam Lockhart (© Adam Lockhart).
Dja Guata Porã exhibition, Museu de Arte do Rio, 2017-8.
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?
Cacau (Nice N. Avanza, oil on canvas, 1988) - access in augmented reality
Macrophallic amulter recovered from the fire at the National Museum (© LAPID).
