OUT NOW: VAI VAI SAUDADE
Following the exhibition “Vai, vai, Saudade” at
@museomadre , this volume consolidates and expands a project that intertwined research, memory, and vision to explore more than seventy years of Brazilian art.
Curated by Cristiano Raimondi (
@cristianoraimondi ), it proposes a rigorous yet personal historiographic perspective, examining how the relationship between modernisms and identity unfolded in Brazil through fractures, contradictions, and reinventions.
Organized as a dynamic album of documents, texts, and images, through the extensive research conducted by Mousse in collaboration with Cristina Ambrosio, it traces thematic constellations and unexpected dialogues across generations and geographies. From the radical experiments of Lygia Pape to the visionary testimony of Hélio Melo, from modernist utopias to practices shaped by dictatorship, migration, and resistance, the publication reveals a dense and plural artistic field that exceeds any singular narrative.
The book also includes anastatic reproductions and contributions by Jaider Esbell (
@jaider_esbell ), Frederico Morais, Hélio Oiticica, Ariano Suassuna, and Adriana Varejão (
@adrianavarejao ), further enriching the historiographic and critical framework.