Abstract

CAPASSO, Verónica  and  URTUBEY, Federico. Brasilia: images of glory, memories of exclusion. Índex [online]. 2017, n.4, pp.67-75. ISSN 2477-9199.

In the early 1950s, a modernist explosion occurred in Brazil, which manifested in a wide range of proposals, projects and institutions, including the construction of Brasilia city. During the presidency of Kubitschek (1956-1961) its building was vested as the concreteness, on an urban level of the imagination of technological progress and modernization, a project to make Brazil move on fifty years in only five. In this paper, we will deal with artistic productions that are articulated as counterparts of Brasilia´s mythical construction. We will analyze the installation of Cildo Meireles Através (1983-1989) and the film Branco sai, preto fica (2014) of Adirley Queirós. Both productions provide a different perspective regarding the experience of living in Brasilia, giving rise to critical discourses on situations of social exclusion and dispute over public space.

Keywords : Brasilia; art; Cildo Meireles; Através; Adirley Queirós; Branco sai; preto fica; memory.

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