Estética da Reação: corpos femininos em Letrux, Juh Almeida e Natalia Borges Polesso

Abstract

This thesis proposes the use of the concept Estética da Reação employed to identify artistic productions made by women in contemporary Brazil. Different artistic forms that orbit between music, literature, photography, and cinema are examined, considering the perspective of the female body as a political matter. They are highlighted for their particularities on how the bodies are presented: lesbians, black and white women, as well by their point of convergence: the prominence of their existence. It is believed that the work of the referenced artists elaborates on female bodies in an organic, conscious and visible way. This thesis analyses the albums Letrux em noite de climão, Letrux aos prantos and Letrux como mulher girafa by the singer and writer Letrux (2017b, 2020e, 2023d). The thesis also analyses the photographs and the short film o L é de lésbica of the photographer and director Juh Almeida (2019a, 2019b, 2019c, 2019d, 2020a, 2024) and the book Amora by the writer Natalia Borges Polesso (2015). As a side effect, these works establish a counterpoint to the artistic constructions structured under the hegemonic forms that historically perpetuated the association of female images with subalternity. Based on these considerations, the work proposes a structured dialogue between the multiplicity of languages the artists offer in constructing the female bodies to identify the poetic strategies that foster this new aesthetic. To construct this dialogue, the thesis considers the place of representation that these bodies occupy, the place of memory within groups that suffered cultural neglect throughout the time and the intersectionality.