No museu e na Avenida, Leandro Vieira “de fora”

considerações sobre carnavalescos em exposições de arte contemporânea

Abstract

Considering the work “Brazilian Flag” (2019-2021) produced by the carnival maker Leandro Vieira – who works at Rio de Janeiro’s carnival schools –, and more specifically its exhibition and subsequent incorporation at MAM-Rio’s collection, we will discuss issues and strategies concerning recent events that means transits between “popular” and institutionalized contemporary art. From a decolonial perspective, we will discuss how these transits between carnivalesque and institutional art spaces by way of curatorship and exhibitions, when that agents and their productions are assimilated as “contemporary art”, reconfigure artistic institutions and the ways that they produce narratives, meanings and legitimation. For this, we will contextualize the Vieira’s case in relation to other carnival artists who interested agents and different artistic institutions, and we will make brief considerations about the carnival artist crafts, its practices and specific knowledge, referenced in Helenise Monteiro Magalhães and Maria Laura Viveiros de Castro Cavalcanti researches.