On October 15, the exhibition Reler Debret (Rereading Debret) opened in the Museu Castro Maya – Chácara do Céu, in Rio de Janeiro. Museu Castro Maya has one of the largest collections of original prints and paintings by Jean-Baptiste Debret, a French painter who spent decades depicting the first stages of independence in Brazil in … Read More
As a way of making permanent our contribution to the visual history of Rio de Janeiro, in December 2022 we are delighted that all artworks and documentation in the Mãe Preta project have been donated to MAR – Museu de Arte do Rio’s permanent collection. The donation includes more than 70 artworks and documents such … Read More
This week, we open a new exhibition in Campinas, north of São Paulo – a historically agricultural region where the history of slavery has left many legacies. And which has a curious connection to the history of photography. Even though slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1888, the plantation owners of Campinas (then called São … Read More
Great article by Ana Paula Orlandi, published on January 2nd, 2019 as an editorial article for C& América Latina! “Exhibition recounts the narrative of black women who breastfed the children of white slave owners in order to reflect on structures that persist today in Brazilian society. In 2015, when participating in a group exhibition in … Read More
In December 2016, we were interviewed by photographer and writer Qiana Mestrich from Brooklyn, New York for her online magazine Dodge & Burn: Decolonizing Photography History. Qiana is interested in the aspect of decolonizing photography and seeking to “seeks to establish a more inclusive history of photography, highlighting contributions to the medium by people within underrepresented … Read More