Fernanda Ferreira Marinho Camara

Fernanda Marinho has a PhD in Art History (2013) from IFCH-Unicamp. Her thesis focused on Eugenio Battisti's book "L'Antirinascimento" and on Italian art criticism in the first half of the 20th century relating to the Renaissance and Mannerism. Throughout 2012 she carried out part of her doctoral research at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. From 2014 to 2018 she dedicated herself to the post-doctoral project "Vertiginous glances in the reconstruction of history: primitives, savages and cannibals", at UNIFESP (FAPESP). She spent a year of research (2015-2016) at the Louvre Museum where she worked on the project "Lionello Venturi's primitivsm and the French milieu" and where she collaborated as an assistant to the then director of the museum's Auditorium, Dr. Monica Preti. In 2018, she was assistant curator at the exhibition "Raphael and the Definition of Beauty: from Divine Proportion to Grace" (FIESP), curated by Elisa Byington. From 2020 to 2022, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institut fur Kunstgeschichte) in Rome, where she focused on the relationship between Brazilian modernism and Mussolini's Italian cultural program, with a case study of the Italian pavilion at the Exhibition Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Official Immigration to Brazil, held in São Paulo in 1937. In 2022, she was co-curator of two exhibitions dedicated to the Empress of Brazil, Teresa Cristina de Borbone, and the exchanges of objects stimulated by her between pre-unification Italy and imperial Brazil, which took place at the Candido Portinari Gallery of the Brazilian Embassy in Rome. In 2023, she dedicated herself to the project "Mediterranean destinations of an autochthonous Brazil: Brazilian indigenous material culture in Italy", at the Museo delle Civiltà in Rome, with the support of the Italian-Latin American International Organization (IILA). She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow (Marie-Curie SNF) at the University of Zurich, where she is working on the project "Displacement, Translation, Desire. Italian Art in Brazil during the Fascist Era". (Source: Lattes Curriculum)