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ensuring its constant renewal. The group, currently – Julieta, we would like you to comment The artistic directorate is quite autonomous
made up of 20 people – which should be expanded on any example of curation that you think is in the sense that, after aligning the essential
by the end of the year with another 10 members – will emblematic of your career. points of the program, we share it with the
have temporary terms, renewed from three to four Julieta González – I cite two exhibitions that I director-president and the director-vice
years. The new Council will be responsible for the did almost 15 years apart, but that tried, each in president to make it financially viable or to
Institute’s administrative and financial deliberations, its own way, to dismantle some of the matrices articulate eventual institutional collaborations.
but will not have a decision-making role in the of Western thought that shape our visual,
cultural programme, which remains independent cultural and museological regimes. The first What is the relationship between the directors
and organized by the artistic directorate. In addition is Etnografía: Modo de Empleo – Arqueología, – more specifically the artistic directors, yours
to the Deliberative group, Inhotim will also have Bellas Artes, Etnografía y Variedades , which in this case – with the art curatorship, currently
a Fiscal Council, with the function of monitoring I performed at the Museum of Fine Arts in owned by Allan Schwartzman and Fernanda
and inspecting the rendering of accounts and the Caracas, in 2002. This exhibition dismantled the Arruda?
financial organization of the institution. ethnographic view of the “other” and dissected Allan Schwartzman is a key figure at Inhotim,
The objective of this organizational proposal is to anthropological and their logic with respect to he started this project with Bernardo Paz.
allow greater transparency and contact with society contemporary art. Today, together with Fernanda Arruda, he
as a whole, given the magnitude of the project. The second one was Memorias del Sub- works closely with Bernardo in the acquisition
desarrollo: Temporary Instances of Decolonial of works for his collection and in some of the
neW exhibitions Esthetics in Latin America (1960s-1980s) , a artistic commissions for the Institute. The
Julieta González and Inhotim´s assistant curator, show that came from my master´s thesis work. artistic direction and curatorial team have a
Deri Andrade, opened the Second Act of the It was a research for the project initiated by the dialogue with them about the program and
Museum of Black Art, conceived by Abdias Getty Institute, Pacific Standard Time, Latin points where the different strategies can
Nascimento, at Galeria da Mata. The exhibition, America in La, which intended to remove artistic align. We inherited several projects started
held in partnership with ipeaFro, focuses on the production from Latin America in those years by Allan and Fernanda, which will now come
history of the Teatro Experimental do Negro, created from the niche of Latin American conceptualism, to fruition, such as the gallery for the works of
in 1944. Documents, books and photographs show which had been consigned in the last two Yayoi Kusama, among others.
how, in the 1950s, the anti-racist movement was decades, and understand the specificities of
fruitful and for the recognition of black art in Brazil . several productions on the developmental There was a rumor that Inhotim would be
Abdias Nascimento’s career was permeated by the logic that permeated the various modernities interested in buying the work of the Brazilian
importance that, for him, the African roots had in on the continent. I think both shows speak pavilion in Venice, by the artist Jonathas de
the country’s culture. That was what guided his of a constant in my research as a curator, of Andrade. Proceed? In such a case, who makes
trajectory as a playwright, writer, plastic artist and thinking and articulating our discourse from the decisions to incorporate works into the
parliamentarian. Latin America. museum’s collection?
This exhibition grows in conversation with the With the donation of the works to the Inhotim
video presented at Galeria da Praça, by Isaac Julien, You arrive in Inhotim at a crucial moment. How collection, from now on the acquisitions will
Looking for Langston : I Dream a World, which starts do you see it? be defined based on periodic strategies.
from a research on the life of the African-American The donation contributes to making Inhotim Regarding your first question, this possibility
poet, social activist, playwright Langston Hughes more active, with more intense public did not enter our strategies.
(1902- 1967), his friends and fellow black writers programming, more dynamic changes in the
who formed the Harlem Renaissance, a movement galleries, collaborations with other institutions, What are the next moves?
that took place in the early 20th century, based on an even greater integration between art and For now, the next acts of the partnership with
African-American expressions and reflecting on nature and with the surrounding communities. ipeaFro and the reorganization of the temporary
identity and sexuality. rooms in Inhotim, in dialogue with the themes
The investigation of prominent personalities of What does Inhotim bring as a challenge? How that articulate the Abdias exhibitions with the
the 20th century, such as Langston, is a constant in did you solve the programming in the case of latest acquisitions by Bernardo Paz – many of
the work of Isaac Julien. The artist focuses on the the current openings? What is the focus for which are part of this donation. We are also
lives of characters from the beginning of the century, this exhibition space? continuing with infrastructural projects such
with the aim of revisiting official historical narratives. as the remodeling of galleries, completion of
The video brings together fictional images, Inhotim is a place like no other in the world, galleries that were designed before our arrival,
impeccably reproducing period customs, along and this difference brings many challenges and new projects that we will talk about when
with journalistic images. “It’s an attempt to fill in that encourage us to think far beyond art and they are more advanced.
the gaps in history with fiction”, says Douglas de exhibition in a system, moving towards an
Freitas, curator of Inhotim. ecology, where art is in relationship with the institutions Foz Do iguazu [pages 56 to 59]
territory, the community and the nature.
institutions iNHotiM [pages 53 aND 54] In the case of the current openings, we THE BEAUBOURG
worked hard to give a more specific form to
THE DONATION the project by Abdias Nascimento and convert OF IGUAZU
CONTRIBUTES TO it into the guiding axis of the program until the Government of Paraná seeks partnership
end of 2023, when this partnership with ipeaFro
with the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris
MAKING INHOTIM will end, which truly inaugurates an epistemic to install a branch of the museum in Foz
turn in thinking. , program and collection at
MORE ACTIVE Inhotim, and a more permanent and stable by LeoNor aMaraNte
Among the proposals, collaborations with relationship with different communities,
other institutions and greater integration including the Afro-Brazilian. as part of the internationalization plan
between art and nature promoted by the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris
How are budgets decided at the institution? A to form partnerships in other countries, its first
by patricia rousseaux project is presented and then funding is sought, platform in Latin America can now be created, more
or is there an annual budget, per project, to precisely in the city of Foz do Iguaçu, in the western
arte!brasileiros spoke with the curator Julieta which it is necessary to adapt? region of the state of Paraná, taking advantage of
González, the new creative director who brings an We are at an early stage where many things are the immense tourist flow to the natural beauties
important international trajectory to Inhotim. She being reformulated, but the procedure is very of the Iguaçu Falls. Since the 1980s, museums
has served as a curator at institutions such as the similar to that of other institutions: we make a in some countries have become art and culture
Tate Modern (London), the Masp, the Museo Tamayo budget forecast and the program is built from spearheads to reaffirm themselves in different parts
(Mexico City), the Bronx Museum (New York) and these available resources. of the world, socialize their collections and, at the
the Caracas Museum of Fine Arts. In 2019, she left same time, balance their income. Not coincidentally,
Museo Jumex, also in Mexico, but continued to How does management work? Do you discuss in 1981, Jack Lang, French President François
work as an independent curator. projects together, understanding and adjusting Mitterrand’s Minister of Culture, declared: “Culture
concepts and priorities? is France’s oil”.
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