The Museum of Contemporary Art of Ceará (MAC-CE) opens this Tuesday (2) the exhibition Pleasure Blockat the Dragão do Mar Center for Art and Culture. 
The exhibition is free and, according to the creators, seeks to rethink the festival as a cultural language and an affirmation of collective identity.
“The party is, for us, more than celebration. It is a way of existing, creating and resisting. Pleasure Block it echoes in the museum the rhythm of the streets, traditions and inventions that drive Ceará and Northeastern culture”, says Luisa Cela, Secretary of Culture of Ceará.
The exhibition is a partnership between the Ministry of Culture, Instituto Dragão do Mar and the Rio Art Museum, sponsored by Petrobras and the Secretariat of Culture of Ceará.
The project brings together 250 works from different periods, languages and artists, with 14 works of recent production or contemporary commissions, which explore the body, sound, movement and occupation of the street.
The works include paintings, photographs, objects, archives, historical documents, installations and records of rituals and popular festivals.
The exhibition will display works by around 50 Northeastern artists, 30 from Ceará and the rest divided between the states of Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Norte and Bahia.
On the list are names such as Zé Tarcísio, Luiz Hermano, Charles Lessa, Heloísa Juaçaba and Mestre Chico Emília, Nicolas Gondim, Blecaute and Estrigas.
“With the exhibition Pleasure BlockMAC-CE inaugurates a new phase, which proposes to expand access, diversify audiences and bring contemporary art closer to the experiences of our people”, says Camila Rodrigues, superintendent of the Centro Dragão do Mar de Arte e Cultura.
*Intern under the supervision of Tâmara Freire
