Marcelo Campos
Marcelo Campos was born, lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. He is an associate professor in the Department of Theory and History of Art at the Institute of Arts of UERJ. He is curator of the Museum of Art of Rio. He was director of Casa França-Brasil between 2016 and 2017. He is a professor at the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage and member of the councils of the Imperial Palace Museum (RJ) and the Bispo do Rosário Museum of Contemporary Art (RJ). He holds a doctorate in Visual Arts from PPGAV of the School of Fine Arts of UFRJ (2005). He developed a doctoral thesis on the concept of Brazilianness in contemporary art. He has published texts on Brazilian art in national and international journals, books and catalogs. In the book "Contemporary Sculpture in Brazil: reflections in ten paths" (Salvador: Caramurê Publisher, 2016), Campos reviews his analyses and includes a significant part of modern and contemporary Brazilian production in a survey of more than 90 artists. Since 2004, he has curated exhibitions in various institutions in Brazil, some of which are highlighted below.
African and Afro-Brazilian matrices are researched in exhibitions such as "Bispo do Rosário, one corner, two backlands", at the Bispo do Rosário Museum of Contemporary Art, in 2015; "Orixás", Casa França Brasil, 2016; "The River of Samba: resistance and reinvention", Museum of Art of Rio (MAR), 2018, together with Evandro Salles, Nei Lopes and Clarissa Diniz. In 2018, a major exhibition updated the mapping of the Northeast region, including research and field work in all states of the region, together with curators Clarissa Diniz and Bitú Cassundé, resulting in a large-scale exhibition at Sesc 24 de maio, in São Paulo. Currently, he coordinates research on Afrodescendant artists in the Extension Project "Art and Afro-Brazilianness".
Research project
Efrain Almeida. Hummingbirds. Escultura em bronze policromado, 2015.
Photo: Wilton Montenegro.
Title
At the borders of art: contemporary reflexivities
Area of Inquiry and Research
Art and Otherness
Description
This project proposes studies and analyses on the reflexivities of the art object. It seeks, in distinct images and narratives, the conditions that ground objects and subjects in a supposed art production that contextualizes itself in identity discourses. Anthropology and art alert us that action is circumscribed to ethos and worldviews, which impels us to reflect on the intersectionality between ethnicities, genders, social classes, in what came to be called "post-colonialism". The narrator assumes instances of producer of gestures and, above all, protagonist, inserting themselves, often, as critic of prevailing discourses. Art is thus exposed as a political strategy to sociocultural belongings.