The Contemporary Art System and Its Mediators: Women Gallery Owners in Brazil (1947–2000)

Online conference by Ana Paula Cavalcanti Simioni, Full Professor at the University of São Paulo, and fellow for a one-month writing residency in June 2026 at the Paris IAS as part of the "Paris IAS Ideas" series.

The "Paris IAS Ideas" online lecture series offers short and stimulating presentations by researchers from the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies, marking the start of their month-long writing residency.

Session exclusively online and in English.
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Presentation

The research focuses on the presence of Latin American female artists in the collection of the CNAP (Centre National d'Arts Plastiques), the longest-running collection dedicated to “living” art in the world. Although several artists are part of this collection, they lack studies and visibility. The project is part of a collective research entitled:HER/itage in a Digital Age – (re)discorvery, discoverbility, recognition, coordinate by the group Hermes/Matrimoines, which is interested in the central and complex role played by digital technology in the process of (in)visibilisation of matrimoine (artistic and cultural heritage transmitted by women and generally less visible than male heritage).