Utopia Innego
Utopia of the Other

Summary/Abstract: A presentation of images and projects focused on the constructions of identity via artistic projects in twentieth-century Brazil. While freeing itself from colonial oppression South America was compelled to define anew its national and cultural identity. Utopian belief in the native experience of meeting the Other defined the quests pursued by numerous Brazilian twentiethcentury artists and thinkers. The experience of Brazilian Modernism, tropicalism, performance art, and contemporary decolonial studies – all those perspectives recall in assorted ways the figure of the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas; they “devour” it in an anthropophagic manner by transforming and abusing it or deconstruct it while disclosing their positions.

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