“Time opens the doors to those who wait”: uses of the past and conflicts in the present during the exhibition held at the Penitentiary of Florianópolis (SC)

Abstract

The Penitentiary in Florianópolis was inaugurated in 1930, in an area considered far from the urban center, soon absorbed by a residential neighborhood. Since 1980, leaks and rebellions began to frighten residents, making the transfer of the Complex a constant demand. In contrast, this discussion highlights the emergence of memory as one of the concerns of contemporary political and cultural, because a portion of the population gives historical significance to the place, this speech corroborated by some detainees, asked to think about the proposal to make the old one Penitentiary museum. This discussion led to Memory Space Prison (2011). This communication addresses the challenges faced in making this space field of Cultural Heritage stage of discipline, the course of history UDESC, proposing to safeguard part of the collection and organization of a small exhibition, titled The time opens the door to maybe wait (2012), which covers a period going from 1930 until 1970. The past administration of this brings up a time that prisoners and community had a very close interaction, evidenced by images of events and tournaments that marked the Week of Sentenced, banned in 1986, when there was the greatest rebellion of State. Entering this marginalized space, make him a training field for historians in training, to create an exhibition that comes from another time, where other relations were possible, encourages reflection about new uses of the past. Can this past mediated performative and pedagogical techniques of history reverberate in society, contributing to humanizing strategy? To what extent the administration of this past can provoke reflection and raise awareness about the critical paths of the penal system? Are some issues to perscrutadas.