Collections and reverse-collections: about looting, wicthcraft and swril in contemporary indiginous art

Abstract

The text is delineated by the following question: "How to displace the relations between aura, work, collection and museums in the face of what the diagram of contemporary indigenous art has been redesigning on diagram of Brazilian contemporary art?". The survey of this question is guided by the image of a whirlwind that draws an imaginary exhibition where Glicélia Tupinambá, Daiara Tukano and Patrícia Ferreira "Para Yxapy" get entangled and a Saci-curator, an enchanted being that infiltrates the politics of images, the backstage and the gears of the devices: museum, collection, exhibition and the history of art itself.  The text is about going through this whirlpool, mapping colonial looting, revisiting the staging of the modern, and listening to the resonances of processes mobilized by contemporary indigenous artists in order to confront the close relations between coloniality and collections, pointing to the idea of reverse-collections and reverse-archives of art.