The National Museum of Afro-Brazilian Culture (MUNCAB) inaugurates the exhibition “Memory: accounts of another history”, one of the central events of France-Brazil 2025 Season.
Curated by Nadine Hounkpatin e Jamile Coelhothe exhibition brings together 20 black female artists From the African diaspora and the African continent, who appropriate the visual arts as a field for elaborating memory and symbolically reconstructing the world. Their productions establish a decolonial thought, in which art acts as a form of listening, rewriting, and re-existence.
Participants: Amélia Sampaio, Barbara Asei Dantoni, Barbara Portailler, Beya Gille Gacha, Charlotte Yonga, Dalila Dalléas Bouzar, Enam Gbewonyo, Fabiana Ex-Souza, Gosette Lubondo, Josèfa Ntjam, Luana Vitra, Luisa Magaly, Luma Nascimento, Madalena dos Santos Reinbolt, Maria Lídia dos Santos Magliani, Myriam Mihindou, Na Chainkua Reindorf, Selly Raby Kane, Tuli Mekondjo and YêdaMaria.
After touring Bordeaux, Abidjan, Yaoundé, and Antananarivo, the exhibition arrives in Salvador—a city where African heritage manifests itself as an aesthetic and artistic foundation—to establish a new chapter in the project. At MUNCAB, these artists construct a territory of enunciation and reparation, in which image, body, and gesture become instruments for reconfiguring historical narratives and affirming Black subjectivities.
The exhibition is a project of the Ministry of Culture, Petrobras, and the French Embassy in Brazil, in partnership with MUNCAB, and managed by Amafro.
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Exhibition Memory: accounts of another history
November 04th to March 1st, 2026
Tuesday to Sunday, from 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM, Saturday from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
