Transgresión, opción decolonial y arte brasileño

Abstract

Focusing on Brazil, this article examines the colonial imposition of hegemonic identity and aesthetics that caused the invisibilization and silencing of the histories and knowledge of colonized groups located in marginal situations. It proposes that, in response to this process, marginalized identities use tools inserted in the decolonial strategy detachment and disobedience to transgress the hegemonic normative in the construction and elaboration of its cultural production. The text analyzes recent Brazilian artists, works, actions, and events that, through their poetics, havemanaged to pervert and raise awareness of the epistemology imposed by coloniality. It studies transgressive proposals that filtered into the legitimized institutions, such as the works of Rosana Paulino, Denilson Baniwa, or the Queermuseu exhibition, as well a proposal born outside the institutional limits, pixacao, which, through its friction with the normative social model, escapes any regulatory imposition.