Mediação como um ato amoroso : um estudo a partir da experiência com mediação no Museu de Arte Murilo Mendes (MAMM) entre 2021-2023

Abstract

The present research is situated within the context of art-education in non-formal learning spaces, particularly focusing on the experience with mediation in an art museum. The research is of qualitative nature, operating through a rhizomatic and decolonial perspective, and is characterized as process-based investigation stemming from the author’s experience as a scholarship holder in the Education Division of the Museu de Arte Murilo Mendes (MAMM), in the city of Juiz de Fora, in Minas Gerais, Brasil, between 2021 and 2023. The research aims to conceptualize mediation as an act of amorosity (or loving act), drawing on Paulo Freire’s (freirean) perspective on education and the educational practices developed at MAMM. To achieve this, the study provides a historical-critical contextualization of the development of museums and art-education in Brazil as well as at international level, alongside an analysis of the aforementioned practices at MAMM. The findings point to a potential in Mediation, grounded in amorosity, to promote an educational experience that is liberating and dialogical.