Unerasable Memories > Statement by Danilo Santos de Miranda

Contemporary art contemplates the myriad domains of human action; its propositions reaffirm a condition of immersion. In this sense, there is no art and world, but art in the world, meaning that art practice is traversed by the political, social, and ethical vectors that characterize each context. The exhibition Unerasable Memories operates from this understanding, suggesting reflection about the artistic possibilities of our days.

Agustín Pérez Rubio’s curating highlights a unique feature of the artist’s action: his vantage point, which opposes specialized technical discourse, is dynamic, and defies pinning down. The show features multiple perspectives on the historical forms of domination and resistance that have occurred for centuries in the geopolitical South.

To enable audience contact with the connections between art and human history is a goal that Sesc and Videobrasil have shared for years. They also share misgivings about the notion that cultural manifestations can be reviewed separately from their ‘thicker’ presents, i.e., presents conceived as being fully constituted by past tenses.

We are and we are not the outcomes of the narratives of conflicts that predated us—herein reside the negative and positive components of freedom. Upon vitalizing more remote and immediate pasts, art wagers on freedom, for it addresses questions to the future. Unerasable Memories presents itself precisely at the implication between art and free action. It is up to audiences to take or not take part in this dialogue, ascertaining whether these movements concern them.