MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona

‘I started by observing the artworks, how work by racialised people was organised.’ We explore the research of Thais De Menezes, a former student on the MACBA Independent Studies Programme and resident researcher at the museum, based on the work ‘Búfala e Senhora das Plantas’ by Rosana Paulino. Her study, which discusses the concept of restitution, articulates and observes forms of artistic expression in order to return the potential of that which has historically been suppressed, like portrayals of black people in 19th-century art.