Pretagonismos

Exhibition Design, Identity, Photography, Print

↗ Latin American Awards 2025
Best of Behance

Pretagonismos shifts the way we look at the history of Brazilian art by foregrounding the presence, production, and narratives of Black artists in the collection of the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes. With more than one hundred works, the exhibition moves away from traditional chronology to build relationships among representation, decoloniality, identity, and historical reparation. The space asserts the right of Black people to exercise agency over their own narratives and to occupy the center—not the margins—of the country’s artistic and cultural production. Design and architecture work as a single reading structure: artworks, names, and stories gain presence so that another panorama of Brazilian art can emerge—broader, more critical, and, above all, necessary.

ESTUDIO CRU, 2014—2026
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
+55 21 996412307
[email protected]

ESTUDIO CRU
Travessa Euricles de Matos 27
Laranjeiras, Rio de Janeiro
+55 21 996412307
[email protected]