A documentação como parte do processo de musealização de obras de arte contemporânea

Abstract

We can see musealization as a term often used to address processes of objects and artworks agencies and their preservation. This essay seeks to develop the notion of musealization, focusing on the documentation of art and the museum documentation of contemporary artworks. To this end, the theoretical references analysis, as some works of art, were selected to address documentation based on documents, remains, and technologies. In this essay, each case cited highlights the importance of museum documentation as part of the musealization process. In this way, musealization is recognized as discursive and reflexive, considering documentation as part of a critical process. In this sense, documenting contemporary artworks requires attention to the specificities of the works of art and the institutional needs, which reveals the interpretative and agentive nature of its practice.