Sobre 'Agnosis'

Abstract

On the 13th floor of the Center for Philosophy and Human Sciences, an intervention that points to tension elements about anthropological and museological practice today in Brazil: the Agnosis exhibition. Despite being commemorative, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the creation of the UFPE Museology Course, the effervescence characteristic concerning the course’s moment of emergence finds, today, a not so optimistic counterpoint.

Using diverse narrative resources, the exposition communicates by its absence, by metaphors and also by the discomfort that it transmits to sensibility. In our day-to-day classes and research, we need to be careful about the floor-to-ceiling barbed wire around one of the floor pilasters. 

The Agnosis exhibition begins with a rereading of the exhibition “Tensions and Dialogues”, curated in 2010 by Antonio Motta, Denis Bernardes and Solange Coutinho. In the words of the curators, Agnosis “invites the viewer, the visitor, to unravel and recover senses that seemingly lurk in the nature of things [...] however, the effect of the real and its intelligibility will never be fully evident”. Therefore, the essay presented here is a narrative about a narrative over another narrative... discursive layers covering ideas and events. The insistence on still building knowledge and representations is an indication of a path.