Vol. 15 No. 44 (2022): Dossier: Projects and identities of Brazil: 200 years of Brazilian Independence and 100 years of the Modern Art Week

The year 2022 marks important changes in Brazilian history. Year of crossroads of forces and country projects, in which general elections are held to change or maintain the command of the republic, bringing to light the clash between ideological tendencies at play and bringing to the surface political anxieties and violence. This is a crucial year in defining the immediate directions that Brazil will take, at a dramatic moment in the country's history, in the midst of the economic crisis and facing a global pandemic, in which Brazilian society finds itself politically fractured by the events of the last decade and under the rule of an extreme right disruptive with democratic values.
It should be added that this year also celebrates two important historical events with fruitful repercussions on the country's destiny, which played a fundamental role in the construction and formation of its identity. In 2022, the second centenary of the Independence of Brazil, achieved on September 7, 1822, and the first centenary of the Modern Art Week, from February 13 to 17, 1922, will be completed. 2022 invites us to reflect on the ways and paths of Brazil, on national projects and utopias of the past and present, and the formation of Brazilian identity.