BRAZILIAN STORIES: THE COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION AT THE SÃO PAULO ART MUSEUM
On the bicentennial anniversary of Brazil Independence, the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) presents the collective exhibition Brazilian Histories, proposing a critical reflection on the country’s history seen through an plural perspective.
As a way of continuing with the series of exhibitions dedicated to History at the museum –Histories of Childhood (2016), Histories of Sexuality (2016), Afro-Atlantic Histories (2018), Women’s Histories, Feminist Histories (2019), and Histories of Dance (2020)– BRAZILIAN HISTORIES offers new, more inclusive, diverse and plural visual narratives of Brazil’s history, not only in the body of the artists and their works, but also in its curatorial structure.
This project has curatorial direction by Adriano Pedrosa, MASP Artistic director, and Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, guest curator. It also has Tomás Toledo, Clarissa Diniz and Sandra Benites, in addition to the museum team.
The term “History” in Portuguese encompasses both fiction and non-fiction, historical and personal accounts, of both public and private nature, providing the word a more speculative and open-ended notion.
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Denilson Baniwa (Barcelos, Amazonas, Brasil [Brasil], 1984). Natureza morta 1, 2016. Fotografía digital, edición e impresión digital sobre papel [Fotografía digital, edición e impresión digital sobre papel], 146 x 103 cm. Cortesía MASP.
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Vistas de la exhibición. Cortesía MASP.
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Carmézia Emiliano, Wazaká - A árvore da vida, 2022, Óleo sobre lienzo, 70 x 60 x 2 cm. Colección Augusto Luitgards [Colección Augusto Luitgards]. Foto [Foto] Rodrigo Guedes da Silva. Cortesía MASP.
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Vistas de la exhibición. Cortesía MASP.
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André Vilaron, Mulher, mãe terra, MST, 1996, Fotografía, 90x60cm. Colección André Vilaron [Colección André Vilaron], Brasilia. Foto [Foto] André Vilaron. Cortesía MASP.
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Jota, Davi e Golias, 2021. Acrílicos sobre lienzo [Acrylics on canvas], 120 x 140 cm. MT Art Projects, Río de Janeiro. Foto [Foto]: Jaime Acioli. Cortesía MASP.
The exhibition brings together 380 works –24 of them previously unseen– by approximately 250 artists and collectives that cover different media, supports, typologies, origins, regions and periods. The privileged perspective is not so much that of art history, but rather social or political histories, whether intimate or private, regarding customs and daily life, starting from visual culture and expressing a more polyphonic and fragmented character. The aim is to escape a definitive, canonical and totalizing vision.
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