Escorre um rio em mim: poéticas de menstru-ações

Abstract

This work investigates and reflects on menstruation as a material for the construction of artivism and feminist aesthetics in Latin America. In the 1960s, the feminist movement and artistic works became strongly intertwined, circumscribing other narratives and visual poetics in the history of art. Women artists began to contest, in their works, issues of the body, calling into question violence, taboos, colonialism, patriarchy and misogyny, in the search to give new meaning to their places in the world. In this way, I create poetic gaps and establish connections between art, memory, healing and ancestral knowledge, producing, based on what concerns me, a creative process that has as its reference the Latin artists Maria Evelia Marmolejo, Ana Mendieta, Colectivo Mujeres Creando, Carina Úbeda, Effymia, Maria Eugênia Matricardi, among others.