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Indigenous Curators: Dialogues and Tensions In The Symbolic Demarcation Of Museum in Brazil

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  • Randra Kevelyn Barbosa Barros Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
No. 20 (2023): April-September. Dossier: Inside, outside and against institutions: Latin American aesthetic practices in the era of mass consumption and contemporary techno-capitalism (1950-2020)
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2023.70100

Abstract

Indigenous artists in Brazil have increasingly demanded the insertion of their bodies in museum spaces, as they aim to challenge the invisibility of native peoples in the country and deconstruct ethnocentric stereotypes often associated with these cultures. In this sense, building dialogue with institutions has been an arduous task, since the structure of these spaces sometimes repels the indigenous subject with its own philosophies, languages, cosmogonies, and ways of thinking about aesthetics. Taking into account the relevance of this debate, this article intends to analyze the curatorial work of Sandra Benites and Naine Terena in the exhibitions Dja Guata Porã: the Indigenous Rio de Janeiro (2017), held at the Art Museum of Rio (MAR), and Véxoa: we know (2020), which took place at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, respectively. It is worth examining how these two indigenous women interacted with traditional Brazilian museums, seeking to execute other ways of curating an exhibition. To this end, some notions, such as contemporary indigenous art (Jaider Esbell, 2018) and curation as resistance (Moacir dos Anjos, 2017), are resorted to. Thus, the study demonstrates that Indigenous curators have sought to establish intercultural dialogues with museums, but often the institutions are not prepared to deconstruct their Eurocentric thinking.

Keywords:

Native peoples. Museums. Indigenous curatorships. Sandra Benites. Naine Terena., native peoples, museums, indigenous curatorships, Sandra Benites, Naine Terena

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Barbosa Barros, R. K. (2023). Indigenous Curators: Dialogues and Tensions In The Symbolic Demarcation Of Museum in Brazil. Meridional. Revista Chilena De Estudios Latinoamericanos, (20), 57–84. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2023.70100
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