Histórias da infância2016

Childhood stories bring together multiple and diverse representations of childhood from different periods, territories and schools, from African and Asian art to Brazilian, Cuzco and European, including sacred, baroque, academic, modern, contemporary art, and so-called folk art, as well as Drawings made by children. The exhibition is part of a MASP project of rubbing different collections, disrespecting hierarchies and territories between them. In this sense, Childhood Stories are also decolonizing stories and take on a political meaning - there is an understanding that the stories we can tell are not just those of the ruling classes or European culture and their visual conventions. Thus, Childhood Stories integrates a broader program of expositions on different stories (multiple, diverse...