08p09jan24- heading to the museum, @vanres1974 [09jan24 10:39]; {22dec2024 sun 16:15} (09jan24)

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09jan24

09:30

beginning

the longest journey

heading to an art museum

under the soundtrack

of W. Amadeus Mozart

composed of larghettos

adagios and andantes

300 seconds

and 500,000 millimeters

from the travelers' lodging

towards 

a 600 years's selection

of visual arts history

mainly

Western European

with a few brazilian touches

in the permanent exhibition

museum's transformation

but that's for next week

let's start this voyage

from the bottom up

in the 2nd basement

to visit the grand "Indigenous Stories"

or perhaps it would be even "less bad"

to name it excerpts from indigenous arts

there are several exhibitions in one:

PACHAKUTI: THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN, curated by Sandra Gamarra, Quechuas [currently Peru]

BREAKING REPRESENTATION, curated by Nigel Borell, Maoris [currently New Zealand]

TIME IS NOT TIME, Borges Karaja Renata Tupusamba - Indigenous people from different nations currently Brazil]

VÁRVES: HIDDEN FROM THE DAY, curated by Inerte Snerby Susanne Hætta - Sami [currently Norway]

Already on the 1st basement floor

WOVEN SKINS, 

a solo show by Melissa Coy and Navajo weaving [currently United States]

The exhibitions,

as stated in the description 

in "Quadro Ferido", from 1994,

by Adriana Varejão,

intend to provoke

"sharp crossings

in the plane of cultures;"

in a de-Westernizing tour-de-force".

Around noon,

I quickly visit

the main collection "In Transformation",

in search of photographs

of representations of indigenous people

by: Europeans on trips:

Agostino Brunias;

Franz Post; Brazilians in colonization: Victor Meirelles; 

in between places, because I don't know if it fits:

Djanira

indigenous people in self-representation: Mahku,

Carmezia Emiliano; Denilson Baniwa;

I go down to the 1st floor

NOURISHING RELATIONSHIPS: FAMILY,  COMMUNITY AND LAND, Curatorial Team Indigenous Ways and Decolonization, National Gallery [now Canada]

CONSTRUCTION, curated by: Abraham Cruzvilleges [now Mexico];

STORIES OF PAINTING IN THE DESERT, curated by: Bruce Johnson-McLean - various aboriginal peoples [now Australia]

Some photos at the end of the portuguese Version:

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