Contramemória: São Paulo Municipal Theater

"Contramemória" (Countermemory) is an exhibition that intends to reread and critically translate, for the current context, the cultural environment of the 1922 Week of Modern Art, which took place in the Municipal Theater of São Paulo 100 years ago. The movement's intention was to sweep away passadism - to combat the racial Darwinism still in vogue, as well as literary Parnassianism and artistic academicism. However, a century later, the class, gender, sex and race profile that united the participants is evident, in what was a week of modern art in São Paulo and not of São Paulo. The exhibition has approximately 117 works, including paintings, videos, sculptures, drawings, and objects, among other artistic languages. It is curated by Lilia Schwarcz, Jaime Lauriano, and Pedro Meira Monteiro.

At the same time, Countermemory intends to produce dissonance in the order that seems to reign in the building. Works by black, indigenous, trans, and female artists of various generations introduce a sonorous noise, through the contrast and friction they establish with the academic sculptures, the European-inspired paintings, and the far-fetched architecture."

Text taken from the website of Theatro Municipal de São Paulo.

The artist Panmela Castro takes part in the exhibition with 8 canvases from the series Saudade, sets of landscapes painted from the memory of affective places from moments in the past. The first set of the series are 12 oil paintings of the cliché landscape of her old studio in Rio de Janeiro.