Adriana Varejão: for a cannibal rhetoric
04/16/2019 — 09/08/2019
Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia (MAM Salvador) /
Museu de Arte Moderna Aloisio Magalhães (MAMAM
Recife)
The show Adriana Varejão – por uma retórica canibal [Adriana Varejão – for a cannibal rhetoric], held in Salvador between April and June 2019, was transferred beyond the Rio-São Paulo axis to the Aloisio Magalhães Museum of Modern Art (MAMAM), in the capital of Pernambuco. Under the curatorship of Luisa Duarte, the show forms part of a project intended to decentralize access to the major works of the Rio-born (Carioca) artist, showing 25 productions from her over 30-year career, produced between 1992 and 2018. This is a significant collection of her work, which includes seminal pieces such as Mapa de Lopo Homem II (1992-2004), Quadro Ferido (1992) and Proposta para uma Catequese, Parts I and II (1993).
The curatorial selection for the exhibition, which reveals different phases of the artist’s work in order to bring a representative sample of her work to Recife for the first time, seeks to highlight how, long before post-colonial studies were at the center of the contemporary art debate, Adriana Varejão was already producing research focused precisely on a historical reassessment of colonialism. The questions raised by the artist find an echo in the colonial history of Pernambuco, marked by its strong vocation for, and tradition of, the monocultural cultivation of sugarcane during this period, the presence of the Dutch and the dispute over land, and the insurgent uprisings against Portugal.
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