| Summary: | Memory is an inventionʺ, publication of the homonymous exhibition that juxtaposed the collections of the Acervo da Laje, the Museu de Arte Negro (IPEAFRO) and the MAM Rio, in a concomitant action at the Museums of Modern Art as part of the Living Legacies project, developed with the support of Instituto Cultural Vale. The show brings together around 300 works from the MAM Rio collection and from two other institutions: the Museu de Arte Negra/IPEAFRO, an association based in Rio de Janeiro, responsible for the legacy by Abdias Nascimento; and the Acervo da Laje, dedicated to artistic, cultural and research memory about the Subúrbio Ferroviário de Salvador, founded in 2011. With paintings, prints, sculptures, photographs and tiles, the exhibition reflects on the processes of building heritage, legacy and common culture, by presenting the three art collections with different histories, dynamics and projects in the same exhibition space. Collected together, the collections show repetitions and similarities in the choices of categories and formats, in the understandings of what makes a work preserved as part of a legacy, and in the methods of sharing works as part of a collective memory. Coming from the collection of the Museu de Arte Negra/IPEAFRO, works by Abdias Nascimento, Heitor dos Prazeres, Carlos Scliar, Gerson de Souza and Chico Tabibuia, among others, establish relations of convergence with works by Adilson Paciência, Zaca Oliveira and Indiano Carioca, artists that are part of the Laje Collection. The two collections share space with pieces by Anita Malfatti, Inimá de Paula, Lucio Fontana, Maria Leontina and Yara Tupinambá, from the MAM Rio collection. In a bilingual edition, the catalog,brings together writings provided by incredible thinkers who, from the Global South, articulate new perspectives in the context of contemporary debates on Social Memory, Cultural History and World Heritage.
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