Museum without Walls

Demolition of houses at Vila Autódromo by the city government (© Luiz Claudio Silva / Museum of Removals collection).

In indigenous time there is a notion of sequence, a before and an after, but this does not imply a fixed boundary between the past and the future, which, instead of being separated by the present, would be both contained within the now.

untitled (Nair Vervloet, oil on canvas, 1952) - access in augmented reality

Reproductions of “artworks” which come with a glossary create a new perspective, add another meaning, or simply mix up the first meaning when facing what was initially appropriated by the artist.

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?

Making of sculptures from the rubble of house demolitions at Vila Autódromo (© Luiz Claudio Silva / Museum of Removals collection).