Os de Minha Rua: curadoria e presença de artistas negras e negros na arte brasileira

Abstract

This paper discusses the curatorial project of the art exhibiton Os da Minha Rua: Poéticas de Re existência dos Artistas Afro-Brasileiros located in Museu da Abolição - MAB, Recife/PE, in the yar of 2018. The title of this project was inspired by the poetic of the homonymous book by Angolan writer Ondjaki. The project has problematized issues about inidividual memories entangled to colective memories, childhood and youth experienced in colonial and diasporic context (Africa/ Brazil), cultural sociabilities between tradition and modernity in Africa and diasporic countries, and how “os da minha rua” («those from my street» in a free translation) are part of our extended family, from which memories can make us reconect with tradition and ancestry.