Museum without Walls

Stratigraphic Turbidities exhibition, by Yuri Frimeza - Museu de Arte do Rio, 2013 (© Wilton Montenegro)

Demonstration against evictions and demolitions at Vila Autódromo (© Luiz Claudio Silva / Museum of Removals collection).

Since the community was being used as a construction site for the Olympic Park - one of the strategies used to pressure residents and compel families to accept the proposal of the City of Rio de Janeiro -, the sculpture “Suporte dos Males” and part of the sculpture “Espaço Ocupa e Casa da Dona Conceição” were destroyed by tractors.

Since the Collection inherited a relatively random set of works and only recently implemented an acquisition policy, one cannot comfortably attribute to it the function of producing a historiography of art produced in the 20th century in Pernambuco. How, then, to deal with this condition?

David Hall, TV Interruptions: The Installation, 1971. Comparison of real installation (Installed at Museum of Modern Art - MUMOK, Vienna, 2010) and VR simulation. Model by Sang Hun Yu (© University of Dundee/Estate of David Hall).

Photogrammetry mapping of Roman amphorae in the Mediterranean Culture room. Photos were obtained using a drone because the floor of the room was covered by pieces of collection items, making it impossible to reach these items.

David Hall, A Situation Envisaged: The Rite II (Cultural Eclipse), 1988-90. Video documentation of VR experience presented at the NEoN Festival, Dundee, 2017. Development by Rhoda Ellis, curating by Adam Lockhart (© Rhoda Ellis).