The educational possibilities of Franklin Cascaes' work: vulnerable aspects

Abstract

This text approaches the concept of vulnerability in museum collections, especially based on the production of the artist from Santa Catarina, Franklin Cascaes, who produced a collection of letters, drawings and objects in clay, housed at UFSC’S MARquE: Museum of Archeology and Ethnology Professor Oswaldo Rodrigues Cabral. The analysis takes place from educational materials produced for the artist's exhibitions, seeking to trace latent aspects of the vulnerability of his production in terms of restricted circulation in the national territory and permanence in the institution's collection. It begins by reflecting on the process of museums’ reconfiguration , which, given the revision of discourses and narratives, rethinks ways of relating to the public when revising their collections, which implies the reconfiguration of mediation practices. Following, the text presents poignant aspects of Cascaes' work to characterize his relationship with oral narrativity and the sociopolitical issues of the Island of Florianópolis. These aspects are also analyzed through the educational materials of the exhibitions Franklin Cascaes: desenhos e esculturas e Cascaes and Cascaes e Eu. One of the results of this study is the need for circulation of the artist's work as a strategy to make visible collections in a vulnerable situation from the point of view of distribution in the national territory.