Tempos Fraturados

Curator's considerations

The exhibition, conceived by a group of six curators, in dialogue with an advisory committee, presents three guiding axes that are interconnected in seven groupings of works, divided into the two exhibition floors. These axes, in a way, sew the various parts of it: the institutionalization of the Museum, art as a collective experience, and art as a subjective experience. Among the three axes, only one of them is identified by a different signage: the institutional axis, which is nothing more than the set of 13 works donated by the American magnate Nelson Rockefeller for the creation of modern art museums in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. This donation was considered the initial basis of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (MAM SP), transferred to USP in 1963—giving birth to MAC USP. The other two axes are guided, respectively, by collective experiences (political struggles and social movements) in the history of the last 150 years and by subjective experiences, such as the relations between the self and others. The seven groupings are: Unconscious (not) free, Cold War, Resistance, and Exodus (7th floor); and Portrait, Appropriation, and Violence (6th floor). They express how these collective or subjective experiences are conveyed in the MAC USP collection.

_{São Paulo, MAC USP, 13.03.2023}