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Exhibition "Nakoada: strategies for modern art
Exhibition

Exhibition "Nakoada: strategies for modern art

Exhibition

  • Nome: Exposição "Nakoada: estratégias para a arte moderna"
  • Abertura: 09 de julho 2022
  • Visitação: até 18 de dezembro 2022

Local

  • Venue: MAM Rio
  • Online Event: No
  • Address: av. Infante Dom Henrique, 85

Nakoada: strategies for modern art

 

Exhibition dialogues with the centenary of the Week of Modern Art
to propose paths for the
future

 

The show brings together modernist works from the MAM Rio collections, ceramics
from the Museu do Índio collection and commissioned works by Cinthia Marcelle,
Mahku (Huni Kuin Artists' Movement), Novíssimo Edgar and Zahy Guajajara,
besides a work by Jaider Esbell (1979-2021)

 

The Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio) opens on July 9, 2022 the exhibition Nakoada: strategies for modern art. Curated by Denilson Baniwa and Beatriz Lemos, the exhibition seeks to add new layers to the discussions generated by the centennial of the Week of 22.

 

"Nakoada" is a war strategy of the Baniwa people of the Alto Rio Negro region to elaborate new possibilities of remaining in the world. The concept guides the curators of the exhibition and summarises the tactic of immersing oneself in understanding aspects of another culture in order to ensure one's own survival. If this practice was originally used by the Baniwa to deal with other native peoples, today it is rethought for the relationship with non-indigenous cultures.


"Nakoada is a gesture of return. It would be the moment when people who were targets of external actions understand the oppressive power of the other and now seek a possibility to return to their own autonomy," explains Denilson Baniwa, one of the most prominent artists in contemporary indigenous art.


Beatriz Lemos, assistant curator at MAM Rio, explains that nakoada is not a theme for the exhibition, but rather a way of acting: "It is a way of thinking that moves away from the imperialist western logic, which incorporates and instrumentalises other peoples' references. The idea is to understand modernism still as a milestone and study it, to think about what lies ahead, how we can imagine the next 100 years". 

 

According to the curators, rather than proposing a critical revision of modernism -- which has already been done in an elaborate way, including by indigenous artists -- the exhibition intends to show alternative starting points to reflect on what could be an artistic production that engages with some of the modern ideals, but escapes from its traps.


In the exhibition, the silhouette of a snake winds throughout the Monumental Hall of MAM Rio. "The expography takes the form of a cosmic serpent that has no beginning or end. This symbology is recurrent in the Baniwa worldview and in various western and eastern cultures, north and south," notes Denilson Baniwa. "It digests our history and carries, within its bulge, this expanded time since before colonisation." 


According to Pablo Lafuente, co-artistic director of MAM Rio,"Nakoada continues the work the museum has been doing in rethinking memory and heritage in light of other perspectives and knowledge, which help us update history and make the culture of the past relevant in the present." "The exhibition provokes us to think, to take a fresh look at the works and artists we think we know. By rearticulating these narratives and languages, and presenting them in other configurations in connection with indigenous creations and contemporary artworks, Nakoada expands and activates them as tools for other histories and other constructions."


WORKS AND ARTISTS

 

The exhibition features work by four contemporary artists invited to create especially for the occasion: Cinthia Marcelle, Mahku, Novíssimo Edgar and Zahy Guajajara . Fundamental works by exponents of Brazilian modernism, such as Alberto Guignard Alfredo Volpi, Anita Malfatti, Candido Portinari, Djanira, Di Cavalcanti, Ismael Nery, José Pancetti, Oswaldo Goeldi and Tarsila do Amaralamong others, are also present.


The exhibition is completedby a painting by the artist Jaider Esbell (1979-2021), ceramics from the collection of the Museu do Índio (Indian Museum) - pots and vases from the Karajá, Marubo, Maku, Terena and Ticuna peoples, Karajá dolls and a set of plaques with Baniwa writing.

 

Commissioned works and artists:

 

- Cinthia Marcelle | Wound meditation or the school of knives - Nakoada version

The artist from Minas Gerais exhibits the work Meditation of the wound or the school of knives - Nakoada version. 25 boxes, similar to cutlery, are distributed throughout the exhibition. The suitcases have inside only the silhouette of the knives. A game between absence and presence is established, as if the weapons were characters that had withdrawn from their support.

 

- Mahku | Kapewẽ Pukenibu

The group that brings together artists Huni Kuin, native people of Acre, comes to Rio de Janeiro to work on a large-scale painting on a 12-meter canvas. In it, they will represent the alligator which, like the snake, is a myth of the foundation of worlds. By functioning as a kind of portal to reach the other paintings in the exhibition, the canvas proposes re-orientations around the reading of modern landscape paintings, trying to relate to the impossibility of domesticating nature.  

 

- Novissimo Edgar | On Invisible Bonds

In the work of the poet, visual artist and performer from São Paulo, made especially for Nakoada, threads are interconnected by seven sewing machines, forming a large web. The suspended scissors can be likened to new beginnings and the imminence of cuts. The installation offers a reflection on what remains of affective bonds when relationships come to an end. With performative activations held throughout the duration of the exhibition, the work invites us to think about the ways in which people remain in each other after breakups.

 

- ZahyGuajajara | Video-installation

Born in the Colônia village, in the Cana Brava Indigenous Reserve, in Maranhão, the audiovisual artist and actress brings to the exhibition a video installation created from experiments in indigenous futurism. Using the phonetics of the Guajajara people, she proposes to reflect on the indigenous culture after contact with the colonizer, with its contradictions, presences and absences. The action nakoada is present here in the appropriation of the technological language as a support for the survival of the native peoples' traditions.


Some works are accompanied by audio description for people who are blind or have low vision, or who wish to deepen their experience with the MAM Rio collection. All texts of the exhibition are available in digital version, for access via mobile phone and screen readers, and the museum staff is oriented to inform the public about the audio descriptions.

 


Nakoada: Strategies for Modern Art was supported by grant N-2009-09221 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Just Futures Initiative, entitled Dispossessions in the Americas: The Extraction of Bodies, Land, and Heritage from the Conquest to the Present , administered by the University of Pennsylvania, coordinated by Tulia G. Falleti as principal investigator, with co-principal investigators Margaret Bruchac, Ricardo Castillo-Neyra, Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Michael Hanchard, Jonathan D. Katz, Richard M. Leventhal and Michael Z. Levy.

 

About MAM Rio

 

Based on the tripod art-culture-education, the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro works with the preservation, development and sharing of practices of creation and thought. MAM Rio's strategic sponsors are currently the Instituto Cultural Vale, Ternium and Petrobras through the Federal Law for Cultural Incentive.

 

The museum promotes artistic and cultural creation as a process of formation of individuals and collectives. Since its foundation in 1948, it has acted as an important agent, contributing to the social movement of the city's territories through culture.

 

The collection of around 16 thousand works is one of the most relevant collections of modern and contemporary art in Latin America. MAM Rio has held exhibitions that mark the expressions and languages of the visual arts to this day, having hosted important Brazilian art scenes, such as Cinema Novo and neoconcretism, since its creation.

 

MAM Rio is also sponsored by B3, Eletrobras Furnas, Livelo, Mattos Filho, BMA, Itaú, Taesa, Unipar, BTG Pactual, Gávea Investimentos, UBS, Wilson Sons, Aliansce Sonae, Becks, Credit Suisse, Icatu, MRS Logística S.A., Sherwin Williams, Verde Asset Management and Vinci Partners through the Federal Law of Incentive to Culture; Enel and Vivo through the State Law of Incentive to Culture - ICMS Law; Deloitte, XP Private, Adam Capital, Concremat, Globo and Multiterminais through the Municipal Law of Incentive to Culture - RJ ISS Law; Gafisa, Fundo Hees de Filantropia and Samambaia Filantropias.

 

 

SERVICE:

 

Nakoada: strategies for modern art

Opening: 9 July 2022

Closing date: 29 January 2023

 

MAM Rio

End: av. Infante Dom Henrique, 85

Aterro do Flamengo - Rio de Janeiro

Tel: (21) 3883-5600

https://www.mam.rio/

Instagram: @mam.rio

 

Schedule:

Thursdays and Fridays, from 1pm to 6pm

Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, from 10am to 6pm

 

Tickets:

Suggested contribution, with free access option
Suggested values:
Adults: R$ 20

Children, students and +60: R$ 10 

Online tickets: www.mam.rio/ingressos

 

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