Re-presentation and documentation of installation art in three Brazilian museums

ABSTRACT The present paper aimed to understand how three different Brazilian museums, concerned with the collection of contemporary art, manage the documentation and re-exhibition of installations art contained in the collections. To this end, we chose to initially delineate what is understood as an artistic “installation” within the museological dynamics and to problematize the question of how art historians and professionals dedicated to the management of museum collections are facing a particular challenge: the reinstallation of the premises and necessary to instruct it. Analyzes of documents, consultations with managers, artists and works guided our methodology. The research found the dependence of museums on documentation coming from artists, the heterogeneity of this documentation and the absence of documents necessary for re-presentation of the works.摘要 本研究旨在探究三家专注于当代艺术收藏的巴西博物馆，如何对馆藏装置艺术（installation art）的文档管理与复展工作进行运营。为此，我们首先明确了博物馆学语境下艺术“装置”的定义，并对艺术史学者与博物馆馆藏管理从业者所面临的一项特殊挑战：如何重新布置展览场地并完成相关布展指导。本研究通过文件分析、与管理人员、艺术家及作品的咨询访谈作为研究方法。研究发现，博物馆对艺术家提供的文档存在依赖，此类文档的规范性参差不齐，且缺乏作品复展所需的必要文件。