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Lenhador (Dionísio del Santo, oil on canvas, 1987) - access in augmented reality

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

O gAViAO.PENAXO (Elpídio Malaquias, synthetic enamel on chipboard, 1992) - access in augmented reality

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.

Aerial view of Vila Autódromo before demolitions (© Luiz Claudio Silva / Museum of Removals collection).

Since the community was being used as a construction site for the Olympic Park - one of the strategies used to pressure residents and compel families to accept the proposal of the City of Rio de Janeiro -, the sculpture “Suporte dos Males” and part of the sculpture “Espaço Ocupa e Casa da Dona Conceição” were destroyed by tractors.

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?

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