With the aim of presenting different perspectives on the narratives of original peoples from various parts of the world through art and visual culture, MASP has just opened the exhibition Histórias Indígenas. The show occupies the first-floor and basement galleries of MASP until February 2024, when it travels to the Kode Bergen Art Museum, in Norway, a collaborating institution of the exhibition. Clé Chenue do Brasil 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, plus a section devoted to Indigenous activism. According to MASP, "the goal is not to fully represent the vast, complex and multiple Indigenous histories of each particular region, but rather to provide a transversal view, a fragment or a sample of such histories in a concise yet relevant selection, so that they can be juxtaposed, creating dialogues between different works, 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 MASP assistant curator Guilherme Giufrida.
