Morro da Providência: da negligência e apagamento histórico à resistências e reexistência social

Abstract

This work analyzes the historical and contemporary processes of invisibility and erasure in the Port Region, with an emphasis on the transformations brought about by the Porto Maravilha project. The research reveals how historical interventions neglect and erase local territorialities, burying cultural practices and memories associated with the historical circuit of African heritage. Using a cartographic methodology that includes documentary, theoretical, and imagistic research, the study explores strategies of resistance, dispute, and re-existence employed by local projects. Special focus is given to Galeria Providência and other projects carried out by Hugo Oliveira in collaboration with the community, to show how these initiatives contribute to the recovery and construction of new imaginaries in the area, which point towards the creation of the Museu de Arte e História do Morro da Providência (MUAHP), – the Museum of Art and History of Morro da Providência – led by the residents themselves, as an expression of an emerging Afrofuturism in the territory.