In the 1990s, businesswoman Ana Maria de la Merced Guimarães dos Anjos and her husband, Petruccio Guimarães dos Anjos, bought an 18th century mansion, located in the Gamboa neighborhood, a port area in Rio, where they planned to move with their children. Early in the renovations, however, the couple found a part of the Cemitério dos Pretos Novos on the property, where, in the 18th and 19th centuries, it is estimated that the bodies of between 20,000 and 30,000 slaves who did not survive the long and dangerous ship crossing ship between Africa and Brazil, were dumped. After sharing the information with public authorities, in 2005 the family created the Pretos Novos Institute for Research and Memory with the goal of encouraging reflection on the period of slavery in Brazil and disseminating black culture through educational projects and research. Today the house contains a library and a memorial with panel displays, photos and part of the findings from the archaeological site, such as household artifacts. In an outbuilding, the Pretos Novos Contemporary Art Gallery, opened in 2011, seeks to be a “space for artistic and curatorial experiments, where local history should be revealed or dialogue with other issues related to it and its surroundings,” according to curator Marco Antônio Teobaldo. Everything is managed by the Guimarães dos Anjos family, who is currently struggling to keep the space open.
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Pretos Novos Institute for Research and Memory
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


Inflatable balloon created by Ozi, from the capital São Paulo, and part of the "Papel de Seda" group exhibtion at the Pretos Novos Contemporary Art Gallery, where Brazilian and Italian artists produced works with tissue paper. Photo: Publicity.
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Museo del Barro
Asunción, Paraguay
01 March - 31 March 2021


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COLECTIVA_20 Encuentros y desafíos
Beatriz Gil Galeria
Carracas, Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
01 March - 31 March 2021


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Colección de Arte Contemporáneo del Museo Amparo (Online)
Museo Amparo
Mexico DF, Mexico
01 March - 31 March 2021


Festivals
Festival de cine Hecho por Mujeres (Online)
Centro Cultural de España en Lima
Lima, Peru
01 March - 10 March 2021


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Ñuble. Retratos de la Región
Centro Cultural La Moneda
Santiago, Chile
08 October - 31 March 2021


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…and I resumed the struggle
The Olympia Gallery
Kingston, Jamaica
01 March - 31 March 2021


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Race, Myth, Art and Justice (Online)
Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute
New York, United States
01 March - 31 March 2021


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Descendance - Ariel René Jackson
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Seattle, United States
01 March - 31 March 2021


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Uma História Natural das Ruínas
Pivô
São Paulo, Brazil
20 February - 17 April 2021
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