Museum without Walls

Envensão nova urso con cachorro (Elpídio Malaquias, synthetic enamel on chipboard, 1992) - access in augmented reality

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?

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.

Houseplans, Phi Books (© Antonopoulou & Dare).

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.

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