My premise is the opposite: I take themes in social and human sciences that interest me and from them I try to arrange the artworks and understand art. 1 My academic research has always been based on images, even though my premise is very different from traditional curators who, above all, think through art, curating artworks based on a point of view that unifies them. The experience was repeated in my free-docency thesis’ research on Nicolas-Antoine Taunay with O sol do Brasil. Later, during my PhD, when I worked on the research that would become O espetáculo das raças, my final thesis also included an exhibition. I think through images and I have been including them in my work since my Master’s degree, as you can see in Retrato em branco e negro. It is not by accident that my title here at MASP is ‘Adjunt Curator of Histories’.
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz: It is a good question but I don’t know exactly how to answer it, as I don’t see myself as a curator. Considering the themes that interest you, how does this interaction take place?
Amanda Carneiro: We would like to start by hearing from you about the relationship between your academic research and your curatorial practice.
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