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When in 1808 members of the Portuguese royal entourage arrived in Rio de Janeiro, the capital of a colony most had previously known only through administrative reports and balance sheets, they encountered a hostile and dangerous population that included a large number of African slaves. One of the institutions they brought from Lisbon was the General Intendancy of Police, which was the foundation on which the city's police institutions were built. The government met the challenge of bringing the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro under control with a repressive apparatus that grew along with the problem it was created to solve. Policing Rio de Janeiro is a history of one of the fundamental instit...
This exhibition presents new insights into these artists' visual deconstructions of language and examines the connections and collisions among visual art, the word and the social world.
Nesta obra, 18 pessoas de diferentes áreas profissionais (Ruth Rocha, Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, Moacyr Scliar, Renata Braune, István Wessel, entre outros) escrevem sobre a lembrança que lhes ocorreu quando convidados a rememorar refeições e sabores da infância e adolescência. Textos de puro prazer que remetem o leitor de volta às suas próprias raízes e vivências, num exercício sensorial de memória.
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