With the aim of presenting different perspectives on the narratives of Indigenous peoples from various parts of the world through art and visual culture, the MASP has just opened the exhibition Histórias Indígenas. The exhibition occupies the first-floor and basement galleries of MASP until February 2024, when it travels on to the Kode Bergen Art Museum, in Norway, a collaborating institution on the exhibition. Art Quality, a partner company of Clé Reserva Contemporânea, was responsible for all the logistics of the collections.
There are eight exhibition sections, each dedicated to peoples of the regions covered in South America, North America, Oceania and Scandinavia, as well as a section devoted to Indigenous activism. According to MASP, “the aim is not to represent in full the vast, complex and multiple Indigenous histories of each particular region, but rather to provide a cross-cutting view, a fragment or a sample of such histories in a concise yet relevant selection, in such a way that they may be juxtaposed, creating dialogues between different artworks, narratives and contexts from various parts of the world”.
Histórias Indígenas is collaboratively curated, involving professionals from several countries: Abraham Cruzvillegas (Mexico City); Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow, Jocelyn Piirainen, Michelle LaVallee and Wahsontiio Cross (Ottawa, Canada); Bruce Johnson-McLean (Canberra, Australia), Edson Kayapó, Kássia Borges Karajá and Renata Tupinambá, adjunct curators of Indigenous art, MASP; Irene Snarby (Tromsø, Norway; Kode); Nigel Borell (Auckland, New Zealand) and Sandra Gamarra (Lima, Peru).
It also has curatorial coordination by MASP's artistic director, Adriano Pedrosa, and by MASP's assistant curator, Guilherme Giufrida.
