FORGED MULTICULTURALISM encourages critical reflection of the origins of Brazil's multicultural society. The project is impelled by the legacy of colonialism, particularly, the policy of "branqueamento" (racial whitening) which actively encouraged the immigration of European men to dilute African ancestry through reproduction. The works highlight the complex relationship between nature and culture, encompassing a wide range of contemporary themes such as politics, migration, identity and exclusion.

A sample of the works, Dos Santos' offers a counter-thesis to the work "Redenção de Cam". An inversion in the figures skins tones points out that the theories of population whitening, projected for 2022, were defeated by the articulation of black social movements throughout the 20th century by affirmative action, resulting in a process of blackening of the Brazilian population. 

Plantation Memories, a compilation of episodes of everyday racism, by Kilomba and a 24hrs live-action by the collective Legitima Defesa with artists around the world, have storytelling as their central element both of which draw on memory, trauma, race, gender, and decolonisation of knowledge. 

The monumental installations of jute sacks by Mahama, the porcelain objects used by Portuguese slave traders in Kamuanga Ilunga paintings, and the performances with the outputs from enslaved labour by Rezende are visual deconstructions of narratives of colonialism, which pay homage to the victims and highlight current systems of exploitation. Reversely, Turner and Muyanga explore how to subvert the traces of history through their research of traces left on cartographies of the colonization period by creating a palimpsest of possibilities and multiculturalism.

The exhibition aims to bring about recognition of inner preconceptions in the hope that individuals will reflect, become aware and carry their expanded awareness back into their daily lives contributing to a  more conscious and egalitarian society.