Short Bio
Fernanda Marinho is a SNSF Swiss Post-Doctoral Fellow (Marie Curie-SPF) at the University of Zurich, where she is developing the project Displacement, Translation, Desire: Italian Art in Brazil during the Fascist Era. Marinho defended her Ph.D. thesis in Art History at the University of Campinas (Brazil, 2013), with a one-year research internship (2012) at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Federal University of São Paulo (2014-18), with a year of research at the Musée du Louvre (2015–16), where she compared the concepts of primitive, sauvage, and cannibal in Italian art historiography, French surrealism, and Brazilian anthropophagy, respectively. Marinho was a postdoctoral fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History (2020-22), within the research group Italy in a Global Context.
Project for the network
Displacement, Translation, Desire. Italian Art in Brazil during the Fascist Era
The project proposes to approach the artistic and cultural connections between Brazil and Italy during the first half of the 20th-century, focusing on three Italian exhibitions in São Paulo: 1) “Nave Italia”: a ship that circulated along the costs of Latin America, in 1924, carrying an exhibiton signed by a regionalist identity according to the Irredentist rhetoric. 2) The Italian pavilion at the Exhibition Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Official Immigration, in 1937, dedicated to urban, industrial, agricultural, artistic, and political achievements of fascism. 3) The stand "L'Italia d'oggi", which took place at “Palácio das Nações” during the celebrations of the 4° centenary of São Paulo, in 1954.