Memória negra e representação africana em Porto Alegre: mediações culturais possíveis

Abstract

The present dissertation seeks to investigate the four works of the Museu de Percurso do Negro in Porto Alegre (Drum in 2010, the African Footprint in 2011, the Bará do Mercado in 2013 and the Afrobrazilian Panel in 2014) considered demarcators of the black presence in the history of the capital south-rio grandense, from reflection on a question: how are these works articulated as public art, suggesting cultural mediations that contribute to black memory in the study of image, in African representation, and for an anti-racist education? This dissertation starts from the analysis of the impact of public art as a possible way of reversing the process of historical invisibility suffered by the black community in Porto Alegre. For this purpose, we rely on the reading of some authors such as Assmann, (2011); and Candau, (2016) to discuss the memorial importance in the survival of the identity of the individual and the collective, Fernandes (2008) on the issue of the introduction of black people into society after slavery and Rosa (2019) when dealing with the social history of racism in Porto Alegre. We complemented the survey of informative data through semi-structured interviews directed at some black personalities for the purpose of analyzing the current repercussions of the works of the Museu de Percurso do Negro as instruments to combat the invisibility of black memory and how this Africanized aesthetic influences schools with an anti-racist, less colonized education and a less Eurocentric art history.