Revista Estado da Arte

The intention behind this call for the decentered Folk Art dossier: contemporary views and narratives of art history, curatorship and collections is to reflect on how notions related to “folk art” have been tensioned, reconfigured and folded into new nuances by agents, institutions and contemporary art circuits, affecting and reshaping views related to the perspectives of art history, curatorship and museological processes. Sometimes questioning and decentering, sometimes celebrating and reaffirming—a political position that does not escape the risk of condescension and voluntarism—these initiatives result in new disputes, problems and homogeneities that we are interested in discussing. We do not want a debate in the field of ontology, but on points of view that are modeled culturally, socially and historically and relate mainly to the interests and values of agents and institutions that collect, display and narrate.