Nuno Ramos: Aesthetics and Politics in Contemporary Brazil

We are pleased to invite you to the virtual lecture "Nuno Ramos: Aesthetics and Politics in Contemporary Brazil" to be held on April 16, 2026, at 3:00 PM (EST) / 4:00 PM (Brasília time) via Zoom.

The event will be in English and will feature Prof. Frederico Oliveira Coelho, Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), co-presenting with Gabriel Martins da Silva, Ph.D. candidate at PUC-Rio and École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), in a conversation dedicated to examining Nuno Ramos's work and the intersections between aesthetics and politics in contemporary Brazil.

Prof. Frederico Oliveira Coelho is a researcher, writer, and undergraduate professor in the Department of Languages and Literature and in the Graduate Program in Literature, Culture, and Contemporary Studies at PUC-Rio. He worked as a curatorial assistant at the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio) from 2009 to 2011, during which time he organized the publication Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro - Architecture and Memory (Cobogó, 2011). He was the curator of exhibitions such as Tropicália - A Record in Motion (CCBB, 2017) and has contributed essays to exhibitions and books by artists including Luiz Zerbini, Cabelo, Gisele Camargo, Raul Mourão, Maria Laet, Vania Mignone, Carlos Vergara, Luiza Baldan, among others.

Gabriel Martins da Silva is a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate Program in Literature, Culture, and Contemporaneity (PUC-Rio), with a research internship at the Centre de recherches sur les arts et le langage (CRAL), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). He was part of the curatorial team for the film exhibitions "Echoes of 1922: Modernism in Brazilian Cinema" (Banco do Brasil Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Brasília, 2022) and "From Dream to Reality: Cinema and Artificial Intelligence" (Caixa Cultural in Rio de Janeiro, 2025).

This event is organized by the FHI Graduate Working Group on Contemporary Art in Latin America, which explores how contemporary Latin American artists, curators, and exhibitions address urgent issues such as race, coloniality, gender, and environmental crises.

Zoom registration here.

More info, please contact Maria Paula Molano Parrado (maria.molano@duke.edu) or Mateus Sanches Duarte (mateus.duarte@duke.edu).