The exhibition Pre-Columbian America: Body and Territory is on display at Ema Klabin House Museumalready west zone of the capital of São Paulo, with more than 90 archaeological artifacts from civilizations that inhabited the Americas for more than 15 centuries. Visitation is free.
Curated by Daniela La Chioma and Emerson Nobre, the exhibition brings together pieces from the Ema Klabin Collection, the Museum of Archeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo (MAE-USP), the Ivani and Jorge Yunes Collection and private collections.
The exhibition presents pieces dating between 1800 BC and 1750 AD, produced in ceramics, metals, textiles, stone and shell. Many of them exposed for the first time.
The exhibition explores the conceptions of corporality of original peoples through three narrative axes:
- body;
- myth and nature; and
- sounds.
Among the rarities, two Andean pieces stand out, from the Ivani and Jorge Yunes collection, which depict the figure of the feline in transformation, one from the Cupisnique culture and the other from the Chimú-Inca culture.
Another highlight of the Andean region are the sculptural vases from the Mochica culture, which represent faces of warriors and rulers with great realism, and the pitchers from the Chancay culture, used as funerary pieces to store offerings, such as grains and liquids, with the deceased.
From the Marajoara culture, in the Amazon, the exhibition presents a pot used to place paints and pigments. Furthermore, anthropomorphic funerary urns from the Amazon estuary are on display, which show the diversity in the representation of the bodies of the people who inhabited that region.
The exhibition will be on display until February 23, 2025. The entire program at Casa Museu Ema Klabin is free.
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Pre-Columbian America: body and territory
Curatorship: Daniela La Chioma and Emerson Nobre
Show on display until February 23, 2025
From Wednesday to Sunday, from 11am to 5pm
Rua Portugal, 43, Jardim Europa, São Paulo
