Puras misturas: as narrativas sobre cultura popular no Pavilhão das Culturas Brasileiras em 2010

Abstract

This research has as an objective to identify the narratives about Brazilian popular culture that were enunciated on Puras Misturas exhibition, that occurred at the Pavilhão das Culturas Brasileiras in São Paulo, from april to november 2010. To that end, I turn to the expographic and curatorial strategies conceived and materialized at that display. As a reference data, I use the narratives of the subjects involved in the event, personal files provided by the curators and by the architect responsible for the expographical project, the exhibition catalog and stored documents in public archives, gathered at the exploratory research stage. The method used is based on the interlacement between the exhibition materiality, visited by means of its reconstruction and the intentionality of the subjects involved in the project, accessed by interviews. Lastly, I demonstrate that the enunciation of the narratives about popular culture in Puras Misturas happened on the adaptations and contradictions between curatorial language, expography and artifacts selection.