Secult and FCP gather collection in new exhibition at Theodoro Braga Gallery
Inaugurated this Wednesday (22), the exhibition "Amazônia Visualities" can be visited from Monday to Friday, from 9 am to 6 pm
The exhibition "Amazônia Visualities" is open at Theodoro Braga Gallery. The show is a partnership between the State Department of Culture (Secult) and the Cultural Foundation of Pará (FCP). The two institutions gather pieces from their respective collections to present a reflection on artistic production in contemporary Amazonia. The exhibition was opened on the night of this Wednesday (12).
The Gallery is located at Centur and can be visited from Monday to Friday, from 9 am to 6 pm, free of charge.
Bringing together works from these two institutions aims to highlight the history of connection and continuity of policies for promoting and fostering the artistic circuit in Belém – policies that, by the way, were responsible for much of the formation of their collections. It also aims to present a connected and stimulating picture of contemporary art produced in the region in recent years.
“This exchange between institutions is important because it reinforces ties that have already been built in the past. For some time, the State Museum operated in the building of the Cultural Foundation, and when it moved to the Palácio Laudo Sodré, it incorporated part of the collection from Theodoro Braga Gallery, which later, due to being a collection of contemporary art, was incorporated into the collection of the Casa das Onze Janelas,” points out one of the exhibition curators, Cassia da Rosa.
“So, this cultural promotion done by Theodoro Braga Gallery consolidated what we can call 'Amazônia Visualities', a concept borrowed from the writer João Jesus Paes Loureiro, from this way of seeing the Amazon, by those who are from the Amazon,” she concludes.
The exhibition suggests a debate on the concept of "Amazônia Visualities" proposed by the author and poet João de Jesus Paes Loureiro. To this end, the exhibition brings together two reference collections for understanding art in Pará in recent decades, the Theodoro Braga collection and the visual arts collection of the Integrated Museum System of Secult.
As a whole, the exhibition highlights a strong sense of territoriality manifested in landscapes that articulate body and nature, in references to ancestral cultures and in expressions of religiosity and the popular.
In total, the exhibition features works by Alexandre Sequeira, Dias Júnior, Diego Azevedo, Elieni Tenório, Emmanuel Nassar, Francelino Mesquita, Geraldo Ramos, Igor Oliveira, Lise Lobato, Lúcia Gomes, Marcone Moreira, Margalho Açu, Maria Itatiane, Maria José Batista, Marinaldo Santos, Melissa Barbery, Miguel Chikaoka, Mestre Nato, Otávio Henriques, Paula Sampaio, PP Condurú, and Samir Dams.
Text: Juliana Amaral, Ascom Secult
