Name/Title
Memórias Do FuturoDescription
The exhibition Memories of the Future: Black Citizenship, Anti-Racism and Resistance presents to the public of the Memorial da Resistência de São Paulo a historical overview of more than a century of struggles for the rights of the black population in the state of São Paulo, covering the period from 1888 to the present day.
By inviting sociologist and writer Mário Medeiros to curate this exhibition, the Memorial transforms the museum space into a place of reading and reference to house an extensive research project that brings together photographs, posters, newspapers, documents of repression, manifestos and artistic manifestations of the struggles led by the black population of Brazil, which has constituted, since its origins, one of the main forces contesting the repression and violation of human rights committed in the history of our country.
The collective experiences in the state are addressed in eight axes: Black territories and disputed memories: persistence in space; Associations, clubs, entities and brotherhoods: The Strength of the Collective; Black Press of São Paulo and Circulation of ideas: Communication as a Means of Struggle; Black Literature: The Right to Imagination; Spaces of Sociability and Resistance: Streets, Salons and Stages as Places of Rights; Repression, Surveillance and Resistance, 1930-1980; Redemocratization and the New Republic: Democracy is a Black Struggle and Facing Triple Oppression – The 21st Century is Black, Feminine and Ours.
The exhibition was created in collaboration with invited organizations and collectives, such as the Black Coalition for Rights, the magazine O Menelick 2º Ato, the Capulanas Cia de Arte Negra and the Ilú Obá de Min, in partnership with the archives and collections of black culture at AEL – Unicamp, the Public Archive of the State of São Paulo, the Museum of Image and Sound, the Pinacoteca do Estado, the Memorial da Resistência and the Condephaat. The exhibition features works by photographers Jesus Carlos, Mariana Ser, Monica Cardim and Tiago Alexandre, and artists Bruno Baptistelli, Geraldo Filme, João Pinheiro, Moisés Patrício, No Martins, Renata Felinto, Sidney Amaral, Soberana Ziza and Wagner Celestino.
Among many other voices, Memórias do Futuro brings to light the continuity and persistence of black associations in their forms of resistance over the years.
This exhibition is an invitation to follow the threads woven by black men and women around their memories and stories for a future.