THE OPEN VEINS OF BRUMADINHO: REFLECTIONS ON THE LOCAL- GLOBAL INHOTIM

Abstract

In the official account, the Inhotim Museum began to be conceived by Bernardo de Mello
Paz since the mid-1980s. Built within the collector's farm as a non-profit institution, the
foundation was opened in 2006 and today presents one of the most important private
collections of contemporary art. From the point of view of this article, it is important to
understand the relationship between the project of an international institution and a
farm located in a city of 38,000 inhabitants, a space symbolically marked by the local
experience, but also by the relationship with mineral extraction, the slave past and the
production of commodities for the international market on the periphery of capitalism.