ARA Journal
type: channel
description: ARA Journal is dedicated to reflecting on Museums and Heritage, based on a discussion about current times, in compliance with the meaning of the word that names the magazine. Thus, past time, the present and what is expected of the future constitute privileged focuses. With each issue, the Museum/Heritage Group (GMP) suggests themes to the Editorial Board (EC), made up of national and international experts, who select them. It is also up to the latter to read the Submissions and endorse referees to analyze the material sent, in compliance with the Regulations. It is divided into two parts: one dedicated to the different ongoing GMP research, called Dossier; the other focuses on the Submissions, both examined by at least two experts, in order to ensure the intended merit.
publisher: Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo e de Design
language: en
publication name: ARA Journal
issn: 2525-8354
copyright: Autores que publicam nesta revista concordam com os seguintes termos: Os autores mantêm os direitos autorais e concedem à revista o direito de primeira publicação, com o trabalho simultaneamente licenciado sob a Licença CreativeCommonsAttribution CC-BY que permite o compartilhamento do trabalho com reconhecimento da autoria e publicação inicial nesta revista. Os autores têm autorização para assumir contratos adicionais separadamente, para distribuição não exclusiva da versão do trabalho publicada nesta revista (ex.: publicar em repositório institucional ou como capítulo de livro), com reconhecimento de autoria e publicação inicial nesta revista. Os autores têm permissão e são estimulados a publicar e distribuir seu trabalho on-line (ex.: em repositórios institucionais ou na sua página pessoal) a qualquer ponto antes ou durante o processo editorial, já que isso pode gerar alterações produtivas, bem como aumentar o impacto e a citação do trabalho publicado (Veja O Efeito do Acesso Livre).
items: Sumário
items: Expediente
items: Extraordinary Museums: alike in transgression
items: Museum is Rio: fractions of pain
items: Threshold of the frontier: The need for metamorphosis in museums in times of crisis
items: Museums_openings_swaps
items: Expediente ARA 18
items: Before the museum: reflections on the artist’s work, the Hangar in Barcelona
items: Museum today: are there changes?
items: Between the Museum and the Factory: Curatorial Practices and Critical Reinterpretations of the Exhibition Andy Warhol: Pop Art (2025)
items: The emergence of the contemporary in the theoretical-curatorial project L’informe: mode d’emploi, by Rosalind Krauss and Yve-Alain Bois
items: University Museum as a Space for Creation, Teaching and Transformation: the Trânsitos Excêntricos Artist Residency
items: Marianne Nassuno: the line and the tonality of dis-appearance
items: Heritage preservation of afro-brazilian memory and materiality: the case of the Cristóvão Lopes dos Anjos Memorial in Terreiro do Pantanal (RJ)
items: Museum spaces and the (de)colonization of knowledge: reflections from CEMAARQ/FCT-Unesp
items: Space, Power and Perplexity: Exhibition Design as an Emancipatory Practice
items: Between Memory and Light: Heritage Retrofit, Active Museology, and Photovoltaic Architecture at Moscow’s GES 2
items: The collection of the Historical and Artistic Museum of Maranhão: collections in contact
items: “A living collection is a collection in relation”: interview with José Eduardo Ferreira Santos on the Acervo da Laje
items: The decolonial turn in the arts and the dispute over the space of Indigenous art
items: Atmosphere and Perception: A Phenomenological Reflection of the Iberê Camargo Museum
items: Editorial
items: Lucy Huskinson. Architecture and mimetic self: A psychoanalytic study of how buildings make and break our lives
items: Displace context
items: The implications of adaptive reuse in Modern Movement buildings: the case of the Londrina bus station
items: “Alligators 427” by H.F. Thiéfaine, an allegorical and poetic testimony to death and nuclear danger
items: Congonhas Airport: once a place
items: Caderno Especial Homenagem RECAMÁN

Sumário
type: item
subject: Sumário
  topic: section
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 3
ending page: 4

Expediente
type: item
subject: Expediente
  topic: section
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 2
ending page: 2
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354.v19i19p2

Extraordinary Museums: alike in transgression
type: item
description: Este número da Revista ARA, conforme enunciado no editorial da edição anterior, agrupa artigos que ampliam a discussão MUSEUS_ABERTURAS_TROCAS, inicialmente proposta para a ARA 18, em direção a contornos que envolvem o território e a sociedade. Mais do que isso, observadas com minúcia, e à distância incomum do leitor que afere motivações, entranhas, desdobramentos e implicações, as reflexões reunidas nesta edição tratam de museus constituídos fora dos padrões, distintos dos exemplos conhecidos, frequentemente compreendidos como parte de um conjunto de instituições culturais que abrigam e colecionam, conservam e estudam, exibem e divulgam seus materiais, obras, objetos e documentos.
subject: Editorial
  topic: section
creator: Myrna de Arruda Nascimento
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Myrna de Arruda Nascimento https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 6
ending page: 12
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354.v19i19p6-12

Museum is Rio: fractions of pain
type: item
description: “Museum is Rio: fractions of pain” brings together 25 photomontages created from photographic records taken by the author on July 25, 2025. The visual essay is preceded by a brief theoretical discussion based on concepts formulated by Ulpiano Bezerra de Meneses. The route and selection of buildings and monuments, in turn, were defined based on references disseminated by groups and museum institutions dedicated to examining the scars left by the civil-military dictatorship in the central region of the city of Rio de Janeiro.
subject: Dossiê GMP
  topic: section
subject: Rio de Janeiro
  topic: keywords
subject: Civic-military dictatorship
  topic: keywords
subject: Museum
  topic: keywords
subject: Memory
  topic: keywords
subject: Territory
  topic: keywords
creator: Helio Herbst
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Helio Herbst https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 14
ending page: 46
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354..v19i19p14-46

Threshold of the frontier: The need for metamorphosis in museums in times of crisis
type: item
description: Museums face boundaries related to the crises of the contemporary world. In societies emptied of meaningful experiences by a predilection for the self, this article aims to reflect on how museums must cross the threshold and undergo metamorphosis. Is openness to listening and dialogue with others the way to mobilize and represent them in these spaces, overcoming indifference and hostility in times of crisis?
subject: Dossiê GMP
  topic: section
subject: Museums
  topic: keywords
subject: Sociomuseology
  topic: keywords
subject: Crisis in contemporary society
  topic: keywords
subject: Mário Moutinho
  topic: keywords
subject: Byung-Chul Han
  topic: keywords
subject: Museologia
  topic: subjects
subject: Sociomuseologia
  topic: subjects
subject: Sociedade Contemporânea
  topic: subjects
creator: Tais Helena Cidral Sestrem
creator: Mariana Queiroz Fornari
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Tais Helena Cidral Sestrem, Mariana Queiroz Fornari https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 47
ending page: 72
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354.v19i19p47-72

Museums_openings_swaps
type: item
description: MUSEUMS_OPENINGS_EXCHANGES, viewed as an integrated and non conclusive expression, suggests questions about the formation of collections and about the criteria for conservation of tangible and intangible heritage, based on research into their origins and potential meanings. It evokes curatorial and exhibition design processes capable of sensitizing consciences, inciting debates, and overturning certainties. MUSEUMS_OPENINGS_EXCHANGES points to possibilities for the mediated construction of knowledge. It establishes parallels with the celebrated project of the Uruguayan artist Luis Camnitzer (1937), initiated in 2009 and later unfolded into a series of conceptual installations in defense of the educational-pedagogical character of the museum, a privileged place for learning and establishing connections between artists and the public.
subject: Editorial
  topic: section
subject: Museums
  topic: keywords
subject: Openings
  topic: keywords
subject: Swaps
  topic: keywords
subject: Museus
  topic: subjects
subject: Aberturas
  topic: subjects
subject: Trocas
  topic: subjects
creator: Helio Herbst
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Helio Herbst https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-15
publication date: 2025-11-15
starting page: 6
ending page: 11
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354.v18i18p6-11

Sumário
type: item
subject: Sumário
  topic: section
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-15
publication date: 2025-11-15

Expediente ARA 18
type: item
subject: Expediente
  topic: section
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-15
publication date: 2025-11-15

Before the museum: reflections on the artist’s work, the Hangar in Barcelona
type: item
description: The theme of Revista ARA 18, museums_openings_exchanges, invites us to reflect on the possible learnings that take place in museums. This essay proposes to think about artistic practices and their processes, with an emphasis on the support, production, and development of artworks before they enter museum collections or exhibitions. Motivated by a desire to understand how institutions support the stages of artistic creation in art museums—from the conception to the final production of works integrated into the contemporary art system—it asks: What technical and theoretical supports are offered to artists? Under what conditions can they be found? Who are their mentors, tutors, and partners in artistic exchanges, critical thinking, and reflection? If the museum is a school, where and how are the books and materials for its learning produced? The essay takes as its object of study the Hangar Foundation, located in the warehouse of a former factory in the Poblenou neighborhood of Barcelona—a space of resistance—analyzed here both in relation to its physical structure and to the support it provides for the production of artistic work.
subject: Dossiê GMP
  topic: section
subject: Museum
  topic: keywords
subject: Artist
  topic: keywords
subject: Heritage
  topic: keywords
subject: Residency
  topic: keywords
creator: Amanda Saba Ruggiero
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Amanda Saba Ruggiero https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-15
publication date: 2025-11-15
starting page: 51
ending page: 70
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354.v18i18p51-70

Museum today: are there changes?
type: item
description: This text is part of the theme of the ARA FAU USP Magazine number 18, entitled “Museums, Openings and Exchanges”. Some intricacies are addressed with the questions: 1). did the creation of institutions, like ICOM (International Council of Museums), in 1946 generate changes, or was there already thought of building innovative projects for the museum area before that? 2). Before 1946, would there have been interest in creating an architectural project capable of fostering fruitful exchanges with the general public, or even with authorities? 3). Analyze two situations arising from catastrophes, that is: a) one of the museums, in Porto Alegre, located in a central area, punished by the waters, in 2024, with a prompt response and actions, worthy of note. b) on the other hand, museums in the USA, with a long tradition of good strategies, but punished by the current cultural policy of the country's president, based on financial blackmail and initiated shortly after he took office (01/20/2025), triggered a primary political game of blackmail. 4) What are the viable solutions in this last case?
subject: Dossiê GMP
  topic: section
subject: Museums
  topic: keywords
subject: Criticism
  topic: keywords
subject: Innovations
  topic: keywords
subject: Patrimony
  topic: keywords
subject: Bribery
  topic: keywords
subject: Museums
  topic: subjects
subject: Criticism
  topic: subjects
subject: Innovations
  topic: subjects
subject: Patrimony
  topic: subjects
subject: Bribery
  topic: subjects
creator: Maria Cecília França Lourenço
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Maria Cecília França Lourenço https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-15
publication date: 2025-11-15
starting page: 13
ending page: 50
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354.v18i18p13-50

Between the Museum and the Factory: Curatorial Practices and Critical Reinterpretations of the Exhibition Andy Warhol: Pop Art (2025)
type: item
description: This article takes the exhibition Andy Warhol: Pop Art! (MAB-FAAP, 2025), conceived in partnership with The Andy Warhol Museum, as its starting point to discuss the political, aesthetic, and cultural reach of the artist's work in the contemporary context. The analysis focuses on the curatorial challenges involved in presenting Warhol to the Brazilian public, considering the tensions between his canonical legacy and critical approaches based on decolonial studies and historiographical revisions. The main thematic sections of the show are examined, along with their architectural and exhibition solutions, as well as the educational devices mobilized, emphasizing the timeliness of Warhol's work as a critical tool for mass culture and visuality in contemporary art.
subject: Artigo/Ensaio
  topic: section
subject: exhibition
  topic: keywords
subject: exhibition design
  topic: keywords
subject: art
  topic: keywords
subject: Contemporary
  topic: keywords
subject: Andy Warhol
  topic: keywords
subject: história das exposições
  topic: subjects
subject: arquitetura de exposições
  topic: subjects
subject: pop arte
  topic: subjects
subject: andy warhol
  topic: subjects
creator: Priscyla Freitas Gomes
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Priscyla Freitas Gomes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-15
publication date: 2025-11-15
starting page: 210
ending page: 239
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354.v18i18p210-239

The emergence of the contemporary in the theoretical-curatorial project L’informe: mode d’emploi, by Rosalind Krauss and Yve-Alain Bois
type: item
description: This arcticle reflects on the theoretical-curatorial project L’informe: mode d’emploi, by Rosalind Krauss and Yve-Alain Bois, which resulted in the exhibition of the same name at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 1996. To this end, it discusses the philosophical meaning present in the author’s reabilitation of the concept of “formless” from Georges Bataille and suggests that such a strategy has an eminently contemporary meaning, parituclarly due to its proximity to Jean-François Lyotard’s idea of “rewriting modernity” and Jean-Luc Nancy’s idea of “self-reflection of art”.
subject: Artigo/Ensaio
  topic: section
subject: Formless
  topic: keywords
subject: Georges Bataille
  topic: keywords
subject: Rosalind Krauss
  topic: keywords
subject: Yve-Alain Bois
  topic: keywords
subject: Contemporary
  topic: keywords
subject: contemporary art
  topic: subjects
subject: philosophy of art
  topic: subjects
subject: modernism
  topic: subjects
creator: Leonardo Rodrigues
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Leonardo Rodrigues https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 95
ending page: 117
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354.v19i19p95-117

University Museum as a Space for Creation, Teaching and Transformation: the Trânsitos Excêntricos Artist Residency
type: item
description: This article examines the Trânsitos Excêntricos residency, held at the Leopoldo Gotuzzo Art Museum, as a curatorial practice that repositions the university museum as a space for creation, listening, and critical formation. The research addresses eccentric and decolonial curating, taking migration as its conceptual and methodological axis. By activating collaborative processes among artists, curators, students, and audiences, the residency proposes the museum as a laboratory for experimentation and co-learning, challenging institutional and epistemological hierarchies. The experience highlights the potential of artistic residencies as devices for institutional transformation and for expanding contemporary curatorial practices.
subject: Artigo/Ensaio
  topic: section
subject: Artistic residency
  topic: keywords
subject: Curatorship
  topic: keywords
subject: Leopoldo Gotuzzo Museum
  topic: keywords
subject: University museum
  topic: keywords
subject: Migrant artist
  topic: keywords
subject: Residência artística
  topic: subjects
subject: Curadoria
  topic: subjects
subject: Museu Leopoldo Gotuzzo
  topic: subjects
subject: Museu universitário
  topic: subjects
subject: Artista migrante
  topic: subjects
creator: Ana Avelar
creator: Lauer dos Santos
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ana Avelar, Lauer dos Santos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 74
ending page: 94
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354.v19i19p74-94

Marianne Nassuno: the line and the tonality of dis-appearance
type: item
description: This paper discusses the New Exhibition Cycle of the Casa da Cultura da América Latina (House of Latin American Culture–CAL), which, in the absence of a formal university art museum, functions as the cultural diffusion center of the Universidade de Brasília (University of Brasília–UnB). The study focuses on the relevance of this cycle due to its capacity to promote intersections between artists, musicians and researchers, reflecting a model of transversal and collaborative cultural production. The analysis of this new project centers on the exhibition Aquilo que Des-Aparece (That with Dis-Appers) by the artist Marianne Nassuno (2025), whose works, beyond their aesthetic value, provoke reflections on bodily stereotypes, image saturation and social inequalities. Nassuno’s presence at CAL reaffirms the space as a hub of critical production, characterized by conceptual density, theoretical depth, and critical engagement with contemporary sociocultural issues.
subject: Artigo/Ensaio
  topic: section
subject: Marianne Nassuno
  topic: keywords
subject: House of Latin American Culture
  topic: keywords
subject: Contemporary art from Brasília
  topic: keywords
creator: Yasmin Mota Nascimento
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Yasmin Mota Nascimento https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-15
publication date: 2025-11-15
starting page: 194
ending page: 209
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354.v18i18p194-209

Heritage preservation of afro-brazilian memory and materiality: the case of the Cristóvão Lopes dos Anjos Memorial in Terreiro do Pantanal (RJ)
type: item
description: The emergence of museum practice in Brazil began in the first decade of the 19th century, with the creation of the National Museum through a decree issued by Dom João VI. However, this museum and others that have emerged since the 19th century did not consider certain groups or materialities and did not advocate certain approaches. Nowadays, Candomblé terreiros are moving in the opposite direction to the museum tradition of official memory institutions, encouraging the emergence of new perspectives and approaches that include Afro-diasporic cultural and religious memories, whether through museums or memorials. Nonetheless, this article seeks to analyze issues of memory and materiality, the patrimonialization of memory and the construction of an Afro-religious Memory Institution (the Cristóvão Lopes dos Anjos Memorial, in the mother terreiro of the Efon Nation, Ilé Oloroke Ògún Anaeji Ìgbéle ni Oman, the Terreiro do Pantanal).
subject: Artigo/Ensaio
  topic: section
subject: Afro-religious memory institutions
  topic: keywords
subject: Cristóvão Lopes dos Anjos Memorial
  topic: keywords
subject: Terreiro memorials
  topic: keywords
subject: Heritage
  topic: keywords
creator: Caio de Oliveira Antunes Victorino
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Caio de Oliveira Antunes Victorino https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-15
publication date: 2025-11-15
starting page: 96
ending page: 120
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354.v18i18p96-120

Museum spaces and the (de)colonization of knowledge: reflections from CEMAARQ/FCT-Unesp
type: item
description: Prompted by the need to revise the exhibition design of the Center for Museology, Anthropology, and Archaeology at Unesp, critical work began to develop a new perspective on the museum, a process that is portrayed in this work. This perspective is empirically anchored in ethnographic incursions into the Vanuíre Indigenous Territory and theoretically grounded in references that discuss systems of power and the decoloniality of knowledge.
subject: Artigo/Ensaio
  topic: section
subject: Museum
  topic: keywords
subject: Ethnography
  topic: keywords
subject: Decoloniality
  topic: keywords
subject: Device
  topic: keywords
subject: Knowledge
  topic: keywords
creator: Paulo Eduardo Valerio Barbulho
creator: Thamine de Almeida Ayoub Ayoub
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Paulo Eduardo Valerio Barbulho, Thamine de Almeida Ayoub Ayoub https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 139
ending page: 166
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354.v19i19p139-166

Space, Power and Perplexity: Exhibition Design as an Emancipatory Practice
type: item
description: This article explores how spatial organization influences power and perception, from the Athenian Pnyx to contemporary exhibitions. It examines exhibition design as a political tool for emancipation or domination, and discusses the challenge of engaging audiences through approaches that turn visitors into active participants in challenging situations.
subject: Artigo/Ensaio
  topic: section
subject: exhibition design
  topic: keywords
subject: audience
  topic: keywords
subject: Reception Aesthetics
  topic: keywords
subject: art museums
  topic: keywords
subject: experience
  topic: keywords
creator: Fellipe Marcelo Brum Soares
creator: Rachel de Sousa Vianna
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Fellipe Brum, Rachel de Sousa Vianna https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 118
ending page: 138
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354.v19i19p118-138

Between Memory and Light: Heritage Retrofit, Active Museology, and Photovoltaic Architecture at Moscow’s GES 2
type: item
description: This article examines the adaptive reuse of the GES-2 power plant in Moscow, originally built in 1907 and recently transformed into a sustainable cultural center. It highlights the photovoltaic roof as both a symbolic and pedagogical element, bridging architecture, museology, and energy. GES-2 is interpreted as a manifesto of energy citizenship and active memory, with inspiring potential for critical retrofit practices in Latin America.
subject: Artigo/Ensaio
  topic: section
subject: Architecture
  topic: keywords
subject: Photovoltaics
  topic: keywords
subject: Museology
  topic: keywords
subject: Heritage
  topic: keywords
subject: Retrofit
  topic: keywords
creator: Ricardo Calabrese
creator: Roberto Zilles
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Roberto Zilles, Ricardo Calabrese https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-15
publication date: 2025-11-15
starting page: 140
ending page: 161
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354.v18i18p140-161

The collection of the Historical and Artistic Museum of Maranhão: collections in contact
type: item
description: This study discusses the collection of the Historical and Artistic Museum of Maranhão based on the Central Bank and Bozano collections that are part of the institution's holdings. Based on research and analysis of the items, works by artists active in Brazil from the early decades of the 20th century to the present day are taken as examples, highlighting their potential for teaching Art and Art History.
subject: Artigo/Ensaio
  topic: section
subject: Historical and Artistic Museum of Maranhão
  topic: keywords
subject: Collections
  topic: keywords
subject: Central Bank
  topic: keywords
subject: Bozano
  topic: keywords
creator: Frederico F. S. Silva
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Frederico F. S. Silva https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-15
publication date: 2025-11-15
starting page: 121
ending page: 139
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354.v18i18p121-139

“A living collection is a collection in relation”: interview with José Eduardo Ferreira Santos on the Acervo da Laje
type: item
description: This interview with José Eduardo Ferreira Santos offers a detailed and moving portrait of the Acervo da Laje – a community-based initiative founded in Salvador (Bahia, Brazil) by José Eduardo and Vilma Santos. Conceived as a House-Museum-School, over the past fifteen years the Acervo has developed into a vibrant site for the preservation, activation, and circulation of peripheral, Black, and popular memories. Grounded in listening, research, and everyday pedagogy, it puts forward a living museology shaped by belonging, care, and aesthetic experience. Throughout the conversation, José Eduardo reflects on the assembling of collections, the importance of the Subúrbio Ferroviário de Salvador, the educational dimension of the project, curatorial approaches rooted in astonishment, and the interplay between material and immaterial heritage. He also addresses institutional partnerships, sustainability, and the role of the Acervo in creating spaces for collective memory-making. The interview stands as a powerful testimony to grounded, politically committed museum practices.
subject: Interview
  topic: section
subject: Social Museology
  topic: keywords
subject: Memory
  topic: keywords
subject: Periphery
  topic: keywords
subject: Education
  topic: keywords
subject: Curatorship
  topic: keywords
subject: Acervo da Laje
  topic: keywords
creator: Ana Carolina Roman Rodrigues
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ana Carolina Roman Rodrigues https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 168
ending page: 194
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354.v19i19p168-194

The decolonial turn in the arts and the dispute over the space of Indigenous art
type: item
description: Increasingly, art curatorships and exhibitions have turned to identity-based and ethnographic issues, aiming to give greater visibility to subjects and works previously considered “minor”, while also engaging in a kind of self-reflection on the principles that once legitimized their existence - a process some authors have referred to as the decolonial turn in the arts. By focusing on modes of representation and indigenous authorship in two contemporary art exhibitions, the 24th São Paulo Biennial (1998) and Histórias Mestiças (2014), this article seeks to reflect on the limits and potentialities of this ongoing process within both national and international art spheres.
subject: Artigo/Ensaio
  topic: section
subject: contemporary art
  topic: keywords
subject: Indigenous peoples
  topic: keywords
subject: decolonial
  topic: keywords
subject: anthropophagy
  topic: keywords
subject: curatorship
  topic: keywords
subject: History of exhibitions
  topic: subjects
subject: contemporary art
  topic: subjects
subject: Indigenous peoples
  topic: subjects
subject: curatorship
  topic: subjects
subject: decolonial
  topic: subjects
creator: Jessica Seabra
creator: Lara Brisante Fernandes
creator: Ruy Sardinha Lopes
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Jessica Seabra, Lara Brisante Fernandes, Ruy Sardinha Lopes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-15
publication date: 2025-11-15
starting page: 72
ending page: 95
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354.v18i18p72-95

Atmosphere and Perception: A Phenomenological Reflection of the Iberê Camargo Museum
type: item
description: The article proposes a phenomenological reflection on the Iberê Camargo Museum, investigating how Álvaro Siza’s architecture induces sensitive experiences. The research is applied, qualitative, and exploratory, articulating phenomenology and environmental psychology with an emphasis on the concept of atmosphere. Four units of analysis were defined and observed in loco by two researchers, who recorded the spatial experience in motion. The adopted methodology proved effective in identifying and interpreting design strategies, revealing the recurrence of perceptions among observers and demonstrating that it is possible to foresee sensitive effects even during the design phase. Through the direct experience of space, it becomes evident how light, materiality, and path intertwine in the creation of atmospheres that amplify the meaning of the exhibition
subject: Artigo/Ensaio
  topic: section
subject: Álvaro Siza
  topic: keywords
subject: Phenomenology
  topic: keywords
subject: Museums
  topic: keywords
subject: Atmospheric architecture
  topic: keywords
subject: Iberê Camargo Museum
  topic: keywords
subject: Atmospheric architecture
  topic: subjects
subject: Phenomenology
  topic: subjects
subject: Museums
  topic: subjects
subject: Iberê Camargo Museum
  topic: subjects
subject: Álvaro Siza
  topic: subjects
creator: Isabela Maria Fiori
creator: Luiz Gustavo Grochoski Singeski
creator: Aloísio Leoni Schmid
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Isabela Maria Fiori, Aloísio Leoni Schmid, Luiz Gustavo Grochoski Singeski https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-15
publication date: 2025-11-15
starting page: 162
ending page: 193
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354.v18i18p162-193

Editorial
type: item
description: A presente edição da ARA, PYAU, produzida entre a primavera e o verão de 2024-2025, foi subdividida em dois fascículos. O primeiro, lançado no final de 2024, reuniu o Dossiê GMP, no qual foram apresentadas reflexões do Grupo Museu/Patrimônio em torno do tema Memória na encruzilhada: desmaterialização da experiência e hipertrofia do testemunho, e o Caderno Especial em Homenagem à Vida de Luiz Recamán (Fig. 1 e 2), exaltando-se o comprometimento do nosso editor, precocemente ausente, com o saber e sua difusão. O segundo fascículo, que ora se apresenta, reúne cinco artigos, uma resenha e um ensaio visual submetidos e aprovados em processo de avaliação duplo-cega, mantendo-se no horizonte os ideais de Recamán e a provocação-tema lançada pela pesquisadora e filósofa Adrienne Firmo, membro do GMP. Em comum entre as contribuições inéditas, formuladas a partir de relações entre experiência, testemunho e memória, o empenho de se examinar os mecanismos de processamento e transmissão de nossa história e identidade cultural.
subject: Editorial
  topic: section
creator: Myrna de Arruda Nascimento
creator: Helio Herbst
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Myrna de Arruda, Helio Herbst https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-03-28
publication date: 2025-03-28
starting page: 5
ending page: 8
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354.v17in.17p5-8

Lucy Huskinson. Architecture and mimetic self: A psychoanalytic study of how buildings make and break our lives
type: item
description: The review emphasizes key aspects of Architecture and mimetic self: A psychoanalytic study of how buildings make and break our lives by British philosopher Lucy Huskinson. The author argues for the crucial role of architecture in the formation and transformation of the Self, driven by what she describes as the architectural event. This event is initiated by the embodied experience combined with the individual's memory in interaction with the constructed environment.
subject: Resenha
  topic: section
subject: Evocative architecture
  topic: keywords
subject: Architectural event
  topic: keywords
subject: Freud
  topic: keywords
subject: Psychoanalysis
  topic: keywords
subject: Self
  topic: keywords
subject: Resenha
  topic: subjects
subject: Arquitetura
  topic: subjects
subject: Psicanálise
  topic: subjects
subject: Experiência arquitetônica
  topic: subjects
creator: Ulisses Resende Castro
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ulisses Resende Castro https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-03-28
publication date: 2025-03-28
starting page: 136
ending page: 151
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354.v17i17p136-151

Displace context
type: item
description: The visual essay is materialized through digital collages and instigates the investigation of how iconic architectures are able to relate to each other in different contexts.
subject: Ensaio Visual
  topic: section
subject: Displacement
  topic: keywords
subject: Context
  topic: keywords
subject: Analogy
  topic: keywords
creator: Luana Alves Farias
creator: Mateus Sampaio Freinkel Rodrigues
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Mateus Sampaio Freinkel Rodrigues, Luana Jackeline Alves Farias https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-03-28
publication date: 2025-03-28
starting page: 152
ending page: 158
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354.v17in.17p152-158

The implications of adaptive reuse in Modern Movement buildings: the case of the Londrina bus station
type: item
description: The Londrina Bus Station, designed by Vilanova Artigas and Carlos Cascaldi, is a landmark of modern architecture in Brazil. Built in the 1950s, its preservation and adaptive reuse are central themes, especially after interventions for its conversion into a museum. The article discusses the compatibility between new uses and the original architecture.
subject: Artigo/Ensaio
  topic: section
subject: Modern Architecture
  topic: keywords
subject: Adaptive Reuse
  topic: keywords
subject: Preservation
  topic: keywords
subject: Vilanova Artigas
  topic: keywords
subject: Londrina.
  topic: keywords
creator: Sidnei Junior Guadanhim
creator: Priscila Fonseca Silva
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Priscila Fonseca da Silva, Sidnei Junior Guadanhim https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-03-28
publication date: 2025-03-28
starting page: 72
ending page: 99
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354.v17i17p72-99

“Alligators 427” by H.F. Thiéfaine, an allegorical and poetic testimony to death and nuclear danger
type: item
description: In this essay we analyse how the song “Alligators 427”, by French singer and poet Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine, creates and reconstructs an apocalyptic image underlying the dangers of nuclear energy. We take as our theoretical anchor Stuart Hall on the importance of music in society, according to whom music is “the sound of what cannot be” (Sovik, 2023, n/p.). Our reading is therefore centred on the musical domain and the historical and cultural scenario in which it takes part, namely that involving the conflict: a protest song against nuclear energy at the French power station of Fessenheim. One of the focuses of our text lies in analysing the lyrics and the narrative created by the artist and poet, which will allow us to understand how he represents an idea of war and death through metaphor and how, to quote Nina Felshin, “artists engage in an active process of representation” (Felshin, 2006, n/p.). This analysis will show how war induced uncertainty and instability and, above all, the prevalence of the threat of death, as Freud argued in his letter to Einstein, “the death instinct is transformed into a destructive instinct” (Einstein, 1991, n/p.).
subject: Artigo/Ensaio
  topic: section
subject: Hubert-Félix Thiefaine
  topic: keywords
subject: Testimony
  topic: keywords
subject: Alegory
  topic: keywords
subject: Song
  topic: keywords
subject: Nuclear danger
  topic: keywords
creator: Mário José Avelar
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Mário José Avelar https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-03-28
publication date: 2025-03-28
starting page: 29
ending page: 50
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354.v17in.17p29-50

Congonhas Airport: once a place
type: item
description: In order to analyze the original architectural design of the Congonhas Airport Passenger Terminal, its renovations and mischaracterizations, the text refers to the concepts of place and non-place. Present in urban memory, the Terminal is an example of art deco, with proto-modernist features; graced with artistic murals. Its original architecture was partially preserved, but its concept was lost. The terraces and small beaches that allowed visitors to watch the planes fly by were lost. Soon, the original place was transformed into an airport of international standards: a non-place.
subject: Artigo/Ensaio
  topic: section
subject: Congonhas Airport
  topic: keywords
subject: Hernani do Val Penteado
  topic: keywords
subject: Memory
  topic: keywords
subject: Place
  topic: keywords
subject: Non-place
  topic: keywords
creator: Wesley Macedo
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Wesley Macedo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-03-28
publication date: 2025-03-28
starting page: 100
ending page: 135
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354.v17in.17p100-135

Caderno Especial Homenagem RECAMÁN
type: item
description: Luiz Antônio Recamán Barros, docente do departamento de História da Arquitetura e Estética do Projeto da FAU USP, é neste caderno homenageado como amigo, colega, professor e Editor Chefe da revista ARA.
subject: Caderno Especial
  topic: section
subject: Homenagem
  topic: keywords
subject: Luiz Recamán
  topic: keywords
subject: Caderno Especial
  topic: keywords
subject: Tribute to the life of Luiz Recamán
  topic: subjects
creator: Amanda Ruggiero
creator: Marcos Rizolli
creator: Jaime Solares Carmona
creator: Raphael Grazziano
creator: Fernanda Magalhães
creator: Lise Silvany
creator: Mariana Wilderom
creator: Paulo Antônio de Almeida Sinisgalli
creator: Gavin e Cristina Adams
creator: Suely Campos Franco
creator: Givaldo Luiz Medeiros
creator: Lizete Maria Rubano
creator: Ruy Sardinha Lopes
creator: Carolina Akemi Morita Nakahara
creator: Regina R. Félix
creator: Maria Leônia Chaves de Resende
creator: Guiomar de Grammont
creator: Maria Cecília França Lourenço
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Suely Franco, Givaldo Medeiros, Amanda Ruggiero, Marcos Rizolli, Jaime Carmona, Raphael Grazziano, Fernanda Magalhães, Lise Silvany, Mariana Wilderom, Paulo Antônio Sinisgalli, Cristina Adams, Lizete Rubano, Ruy Sardinha, Carolina Nakahara, Regina Félix, Maria Leônidas Rezende, Guiomar Grammont, Maria Cecília Lourenço https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-06
publication date: 2024-12-06
starting page: 84
ending page: 129
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354.v17i17p84-129

Editorial
type: item
description: This issue of ARA, PYAU, scheduled to be published between spring and summer 2024, has a peculiar format: it will be divided into two issues. This one, which we present here, in the final days of this year, with the publication of the GMP Dossier and the Special Supplement in Tribute to the Life of our editor Luiz Recamán, and a subsequent one, with the articles submitted and approved by the reviewers, for ARA Magazine 17, volume 17, issue , which we intend to finalize in March 2025.
subject: Editorial
  topic: section
creator: Myrna Arruda Nascimento
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Myrna Arruda Nascimento https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-06
publication date: 2024-12-06
starting page: 4
ending page: 6
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-8354.v17i17p4-6