o While the house burns: observations about power, art, and the most brutal forgetfulness.

observações sobre poder, arte e brutalíssimos esquecimentos

Abstract

From a critical clipping that has as theoretical contribution from the ideas proposede by Giorgio Agamben in When the house burns down and Achille Mbembe on Brutalism this article is part of a fundamental question: does the circulation of invisible, forgotten and buried narratives make power an institution without a memory? We have been seeing “the house burning down” and brutalism expanding its political economy from the  bodies on a frightening and forceful global scale. We believe that art – its language, its face and its power – remains the essential device for, somehow, illuminating and recovering some brutal forgetfulness.