Rio Atlântico

CURADORIA

Monica Lima

Aí está ele, o mar, o mais ininteligível das existências não humanas

Clarice LispectorÁguas do Mundo


Rio de Janeiro is an Atlantic city, as the maps indicate and Geography asserts. But, History makes Rio an Afro-Atlantic city: its relationship with the Ocean Sea happened largely because it connected with this other shore, and its importance in what is called the Atlantic World arises mainly from its connection with Africa. Rio de Janeiro is a port city, a place of arrivals and departures, and also a link with the inland routes that connect the sea – on all its shores – with the country's interior.

The sea, with its sounds and images, is an element that runs through all the rooms.

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A Pequena África é Atlântica

Rio de Janeiro in the first half of the 19th century was a city full of Africans from different origins. What was perceived and narrated in the accounts of travelers of the period was an everyday spectacle of Africanities circulating and marking presence, especially in the streets near the port and the city center. All of this was related to slavery and the intensity of the activity of the Atlantic traffic of Africans brought as captives to Brazil, with Rio de Janeiro then being the main port of entry. Especially during the first three decades of the 19th century, every week, or every month, depending on demand, vessels from Africa arrived with more people, which impregnated the life of the city with their humanity. Even though they were named and treated as merchandise, they never became such, and they imprinted their culture on the world that surrounded them.

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