Pedagogia da Intimidade: uma encruzilhada entre educação, prática artística e relações gêneroraciais

Abstract

This work aims to study, within a timeframe of 10 years (2011-2021), the concept of intimacy as brought upon the crossroads formed by the author’s experience as an art educator, artist and curator. More than a personal cartography, this work is interested in the advances regarding race and gender in the field of visual arts in these ten years and in the creation of a concept-device that functions as a means to humanize black people through art. By analyzing my own work and my relation with art education and analyzing the works of other artists, I seek to investigate subjects and/or strategies that lead the spectator to reflect upon the racial/ethnic relations in which they are inserted. Some of this work’s main questions refer to how the intimacy developed by black artists and the public is able to generate reflections of racial relations in Brazil and how these perceptions differ among black and white spectators. Moreover, we reflect on how curators can exacerbate stereotypes or help heal the colonial trauma and how art-education can intermediate these issues.