Indigenous Stools in The Museum

Approximations between the exhibition Indigenous Stools of Brazil and The Referential Mark of The Oscar Niemeyer Museum.

Abstract

The exhibition Indigenous Stools of Brazil took place from June 23, 2022 to April 9, 2023, at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum (MON), in Curitiba-PR, and presented indigenous stools belonging to the BEĨ Collection. This work articulates the exhibition's narratives - with a focus on curatorship, the exhibition project and the museum's institutional positioning. Documents from MON and the BEĨ Collection were analyzed, such as the Referential Mark, the Exhibition Policy, the exhibition schedule, the exhibition folder, the exhibition project and photographs. The research, based on bibliography from the fields of design, museology and anthropology, highlights curatorial strategies in the insertion of indigenous material culture into art and design circuits. Through the research, it was observed that the indigenous stools were presented based on the visual regime established in art and design exhibitions, triggering and deactivating the sacred and ritualistic dimensions of the artifacts throughout the assembly.