Sewing between times: notes on curatorship, education and collections

From a curatorial practice that connects art, learning processes and memory, curator Beatriz Lemos joins PING!, to share the most recent exhibition projects, public programmes and publications carried out by the Curatorial, Education, Communication and Collection departments of MAM – Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil.

The conversation takes place within the workshop Filters for Image Transgression, guided by Thais de Menezes, which started from a decolonial action and the deconstruction of three places: the Infante D. Henrique Secondary School, the Palácio de Cristal, with its gardens, and the First Portuguese Colonial Exhibition, which have in common their temporal and ideological conception.

Beatriz Lemos works in curatorship and directs the platform Lastro – Free Exchanges in Art. From counter-hegemonic perspectives, she acts in the conduction and articulation of transdisciplinary processes in networking, creation and learning. With a degree in Art History from UERJ and a Masters in Social History of Culture from PUC RJ, her curatorial research began in 2003, comprising a vast curriculum of exhibitions, residencies, publications, networking, educational practices, coordination of residency programmes, conferences and research processes, in addition to the organization, cataloging and mediation of collections.
She is currently Associate Curator at MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil.

Photography: Rui Meireles / Ágora Porto