Bicho metamorfoseante: corpo-memória-matéria em confluência

Abstract

The present research, titled "METAMORPHOSING CREATURE: BODY-MEMORY-MATTER IN CONFLUENCE", arose from the need to reflect on my artistic creation process developed through material procedures involving earth and water, informed by feminist and decolonial thought. It draws on the theories of contemporary philosophers and thinkers who explore these themes, such as Ailton Krenak, Antônio Bispo dos Santos, Conceição Evaristo, Gabriela Barzaghi De Laurentis, Glória E. Anzaldúa, Manuela Rodrigues, Margareth Rago, Rosana Paulino, Vera Maria Pallamin, and Walter Mignolo.This research was developed using an autobiographical methodology, aiming to understand the relationship between the female body and more-than-human beings—in this case, the Rio Preto river and its surrounding territories in Palmeiras, Chapada Diamantina – BA. These elements serve as sources of inspiration for my artistic creation, particularly through working with clay. In this confluence of body-memory-matter, a theoretical-practical production emerges, forming the basis of this research. The works created in this process were part of collective exhibitions and publications between 2022 and 2024, as well as the solo exhibition titled "metamorphosing Creature," which took place in September 2024 at A Galeria Ativa Atelier in Salvador, Bahia. The body-sculpture constructed during the research provides me with a framework not only to advance my artistic career but also to gain an understanding of the self intertwined with the territory in an expanded sense of creation. This work constitutes the final project of the master's degree program in the line of the Artistic Creation Processes in the Graduate Program in Visual Arts at the School of Fine Arts, Federal University of Bahia.