Sep 17 2022 – Feb 26 2023
Curators: Beatriz Lemos, Keyna Eleison, Pablo Lafuente and Thiago de Paula Souza
Facing the past, its symbols, discourses and movements helps to raise awareness about how historical processes shape the present. In this sense, Acts of Revolt: Other Imaginaries on Independence rethinks the bicentennial of 7 September 1822, from a series of popular uprisings that preceded the regime change or that occurred in subsequent decades.
Popular or bourgeois uprisings and separatist insurrections offer a complex and often contradictory dimension to this process. The Guarani Wars (1753-56), the Minas Gerais Conspiracy (1789), the Pernambucan Revolution (1817), the Independence of Bahia (1822), the Malê Revolt(1835), the Cabanagem (1835-40), the Farroupilha Revolt (1835-45), the Vassouras Revolt (1838) and the Balaiada (1838-41), among others, presented throughout the geography of Brazil alternative country models driven by desires to transform reality.
For the exhibition, developed in collaboration with the Museu da Inconfidência in Ouro Preto, a group of contemporary artists was invited to dialogue with these political manifestations through recent works that portray narratives, discourses and systematically stifled actions, such as the histories of quilombola leaders and indigenous struggles.
Their works materialise a series of conceptual axes that cast questions about leaders, heroines and heroes; the symbols that sustain these uprisings; the modes of social organisation and their relations with legal systems; the cartographic construction of the territory, and the production and circulation of value.
Pieces, objects and fragments from the 18th and 19th centuries that relate to the construction of images and the colonial ways of life accompany the works of these contemporary artists, showing their persistence over time.
The act of looking at history through art continues the exercise proposed by two exhibitions presented by MAM Rio in 2022 – Land Across Time: Photographs of Brazil and Nakoada: Strategies for Modern Art. Together, the three exhibitions reflect the conviction that art and the museum are also fundamental tools in the task of thinking about our past and what we are today.
ARTISTS
Ana Lira (Recife, Pernambuco)
Arissana Pataxó (Porto Seguro, Bahia)
Arjan Martins (Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro)
Elian Almeida (Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro)
Gê Viana (São Luís, Maranhão)
Giseli Vasconcelos (Belém, Pará) and Pedro Victor Brandão (Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro)
Glauco Rodrigues (Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul)
Glicéria Tupinambá (Ilhéus, Bahia)
Gustavo Caboco Wapichana (Curitiba, Paraná) and Roseane Cadete Wapichana (Boa Vista, Roraima)
Luana Vitra (Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais)
Marcela Cantuária (Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro) in collaboration with Frente de Mulheres Brigadistas
Paulo Nazareth (Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais)
Thiago Martins de Melo (São Luís, Maranhão)
Tiago Sant’Ana (Salvador, Bahia)
INSTITUTIONS/COLLECTIONS
Acervo do Convento Santo Antônio do RJ
Acervo Museu Histórico Nacional / Ibram / MTur
Acervo do Museu da Inconfidência / Ibram / MTur
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Lei de Incentivo à Cultura
Organisation: Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
Strategic Sponsors: Instituto Cultural Vale, Ternium, Petrobras
Master Sponsors: Eletrobras Furnas, Livelo
Presented by: Secretaria Especial da Cultura e Ministério do Turismo