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the suspension of one of the sections of the a name we give to certain non-autocratic research is Denise Murrell’s own doctoral
Brazilian Histories collective, due to the political regimes. The Brazil of the years thesis, entitled Seeing Laure: Race and
declared impossibility of exhibiting a series 2013-2020 has been described as a country Modernity From Manet’s Olympia to Matisse,
of photos about the Landless Rural Workers in regressive democracy, that is, marked Bearden and Beyond and defended in 2013
Movement (mST), Benites resigned from the by the precariousness of institutional at Columbia University, in the USA.
museum, where until then was an assistant functioning, retraction of the free use of In an objective case of reparation, the
curator. The section, entitled Resumptions, the word and violation of human rights”. professor points out that some of the
was curated by her and Clarissa Diniz, and In that regard, models were identified through research
after a series of manifestations from both of “So if we want to think of a Brazil capable and “many of them went from simple extras
them and from other figures in the artistic of repairing and reinventing itself, in a to individuals. It was even possible to rescue
world, Masp’s decision was revoked and sense not only of forgiving, transposing, the biography of some of them. [With this]
the section was reinstated. but of sharing something, it is necessary the Musée d’Orsay finally gives its name
“From the moment we occupy a space with to look at the abyss and see in it more than to the forgotten by the History of Art, and
different bodies, we add, we expand. But mere negativity, more than mere hiatus. opens a reflection on the ever-present
these expansions require a lot of listening,” insurmountable, but to see in this abyss conflicts of representation”. Not only
says Benites. “When I decided to leave, I a common to come, which can bring us that, but some works also had their titles
think my silencing was also my resistance. closer”, declares the psychoanalyst. For revisited to eliminate pejorative and racist
This place where I cannot add, I cannot him, “there are artists such as Anselm expressions. As an example, Ferreira points
stay.” With this example, the curator delves Kiefer, Alfredo Jaar, Nazareth Pacheco and out the case of Portrait of a Negress (1800),
into the ideas of democracy and reparation, Itamar Vieira Júnior who have dedicated by Marie-Guillemine Benoist, reformulated
which shows us that merely inviting spaces themselves specifically to the work of into Portrait of Madeleine.She also brings
and positions, without a real listening and mourning and reparation, as well as there to the debate the work of Anne Lafont, a
opening to the culture of the other, is useless, are ethical witnesses of unspeakable professor at the École des hautes études
does not lead to a legitimate occupation by disasters, such as Sojourner Truth, Primo en sciences sociales, in Paris, whose book
bodies. different, but an attempt to mold Levi or the compilation of dreams made by An African in the Louvre was translated by
them to the system. “Many times we do not Charlotte Bernhardt, but its message really Ferreira and will be published by Bazar do
fit in these spaces.” becomes a commitment to the future when Tempo later this year. Finally, transporting
The psychoanalyst, author and professor it implies a kind of deal between the living, the questions to the national scene, the
at the Institute of Psychology at USP, the dying and the beings to come”. teacher recalled the work Where are the
Christian Dunker, followed up on this blacks? , created by Frente 3 de Fevereiro
speech by Benites when he expressed that the farCe anD the CommunitY and displayed as an intervention on the
democracy can be extended because it It was exploring one of these efforts of facade of Masp on the occasion of the Afro-
includes those who were excluded by it at reparation and commitment to the future Atlantic Histories exhibition.
a given moment, but it can also twitch. For that Ligia Fonseca Ferreira, associate Professor, curator and visual artist
him, it is in these moments when we realize professor at the Department of Languages Claudinei Roberto da Silva seems to
that democracy is not free, “episodes of at UnifESP and PhD from the University of echo this questioning. Current member
rupture that, in a way, represent the entire Paris 3 – Sorbonne, began the reflections of the art commission at mAm São Paulo
process by denying the process” and in of the second and last day of the Vii and co-curator of the 37th Panorama of
which the image of the abyss appears. International Seminar arte!brasileiros , Brazilian Art promoted by the institution,
“The allegory of the abyss, or the precipice, more specifically the exhibition The Black the panelist wrote in an article for the 53rd
arises spontaneously when we think of Model from Géricault to Matisse, which took edition of arte!brasileiros: “In a Brazil
the history of democracy in Brazil, as an place at the Musée d’Orsay in 2019. The deeply committed to its slaveholding past
index of inequality, of difference, of the show featured works from the abolition of and, therefore, with structural racism and
insurmountability between races, classes, slavery in France (1794) to the modern day the practices it enshrines, what do we talk
genders, the result of a colonization marked and, according to the Musée d’Orsay, was about when we talk about Afro-Brazilian
by a relationship in abyss, in which the designed to “provide a perspective of long art?”. In the same text, he suggests that
passage from one side to the other is term” and “focuses mainly on the issue we talk about “the need to build a new
prohibited”, of models and on the dialogue between design of history, including art, which in
But, after all, what do we talk about the artist who paints, sculpts, engraves or its constitution is based on anti-racism and
when we talk about democracy? In an photographs and the model who poses. It imposes a debate on whiteness”.
article published in the 58th issue of notably explores how the representation At the Vii International Seminar, Silva
arte!brasileiros, the psychoanalyst of black subjects evolved in major works reaffirmed: “The idea that we have of
expands the question: “Some will say that by Théodore Géricault, Charles Cordier, democracy cannot exist without culture and

the idea of democracy originated in antiquity Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Edouard Manet, cannot exist without reparation. Especially
was realized in institutions of modernity. Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse, as well as in a country that, like ours, has a history of
Others will argue that this is an incomplete photographs by Nadar and Carjat. violence and exclusion”, pointed out Silva.
achievement, as democracy remains the Curated by Cécile Debray, Stéphane In this sense, the curator extrapolates the
ideal, that is, the idea of a community to Guégan, Denise Murrell and Isolde discursive idea to highlight the importance
come, capable of being-for-all and including Pludermacher, the exhibition, “in addition of practical actions and a direction of our
all. Still others consider the application of to its proposed beauty, highlighted the value country’s policies: “The defense of our
the idea of democracy to people and ideas and determining role of research on the incipient democracy necessarily involves the

to be a falsification of the term. Democracy representation of black men and women defense of institutions of culture, education
never existed, therefore it never will. It’s just in Western art”, says Ferreira. Among such and art”. Then, he paraphrased Mário de
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