Entre cores e tramas: cor da pele, racismo e afetividade no processo criativo contemporâneo

Abstract

This dissertation addresses the color of human skin and some artistic investigations that discuss racism, ancestry, affectivity, social and political behaviors based on the body as a visual sign. From the investigation, through photographic records, of the body of the model Karine Guimarães who presents an epithelial tissue with depigmented areas, due to vitiligo, my skin and the skin of my paternal relatives, the meeting and classification of the colors found in different skins that in the course of the creative process I call Temporal Epidermal Palette (PET) that helps my artistic production. It thus problematizes the skin color paradigm as a color-unity, a presupposition that guides the production of contemporary artists in their multiple poetics, in dialogue with theorists such as Lia Schumann and Grada Kilomba. In addition to this, an analysis of how the color of the skin in its multiple shades becomes a marker of racialization of black bodies, as well as a parameter of affectivity in an interracial family