A queda do céu: representação e mímesis em uma "arte índia"

Abstract

At least since 2010, Moacir dos Anjos has curated visual art exhibitions where, starting from literary motes, he discusses the situation of certain subaltern discourses from a postcolonial perspective. Among them, A queda do ceu, held in the Paco das Artes, Sao Paulo, in 2015, is part of a homonymous work written by the Yanomami David Kopenawa with the French anthropologist Bruce Albert to address the "indigenous question" and demand the recognition of an artistic production in Brazil committed to bringing this issue to the aesthetic field as "arte india". We intend to discuss here how the curatorship triggers procedures of representation and mimesis, recurrent in many works, in order to construct his political argument from dialogues with the mentioned literary work. KEYWORDS “Arte india”, curatorship, representation, mimesis.