Discover all the Occupations What does it mean to “exhibit” a writer and his work? What can be expected from this representation? How to encourage the general public (whether they are readers or not) to visit an exhibition filled with works that are primarily and most significantly expressed by the written word? These issues certainly challenge the planners of an exhibition on an author, or, in a more general manner, on poetry, a literary movement or any other topic related to literature. This was the case with Paulo Leminski, the writer who was the subject of an edition of the Ocupação project in 2009, and it is now the case with Haroldo de Campos. The idea behind this Itaú Cultural project is to open up a path for the answers by being a space where new generations can learn about seminal artists and discover elements of their creation processes and backgrounds. With this goal in mind, the curators of the Ocupação Haroldo de Campos– H LÁXIA exhibition – Frederico Barbosa, Gênese Andrade, Livio Tragtenberg and Marcelo Tápia – have (re)formulated the world of the author of Galáxias [Galaxies] with photos, typed writings, autographs, poems, translations, essays.
By occupying for the first time a location other than the Itaú Cultural – the Casa das Rosas – Espaço Haroldo de Campos de Poesia e Literatura [Haroldo de Campos Center for Poetry and Literature], a partner in this project – the series, in its ninth edition, displays a never seen before series of marginálias, notes that Haroldo made in books that were his main points of reference. Through them, the general public can discover what the poet and translator was thinking while reading the books chosen for the exhibition. But making it possible for everyone to know aspects of the author’s life and read this works is not enough. The exhibition also includes installations that interpret Haroldo de Campos and his works, especially the baroque Galáxias. H LÁXIA, an installation and title created by Livio Tragtenberg is one of these installations: it is a sensorial, multi-linguistic space which engulfs visitors and challenges them with different readings of the work.
Itaú Cultural