Tornando visível o não visto: estratégias da arte política no campo ampliado da gravura

Abstract

Although considered a secular and old-fashioned procedure, printmaking is still productive in the wake of contemporary artists, contradicting the claims of the harbingers of digital and technological revolution. The question that arises is: can printmaking contribute to the most recent discussions about art and politics? From this question, a theoretical choice is outlined. One that faces printmaking not as a technique, but as a field of thought and action. It presents itself as a wide and diverse field that incorporates the elements of the print culture, such as newspaper, book, poster, flyer, billboard and various types of printing. In this sense, this dissertation aims to bring closer the strategies of artists that work in this expanded field of politic issues on the perspective of a reconfiguration of the "distribution of the sensible", a term coined by Jacques Rancière. What the artist gives to see? How he acts upon the sensible order that gives visibility to some and removes other? Through a study of the efficacy of art and its aesthetic and pedagogical models, turns to projects that develop within and outside museums and, although structurally different, wish to be considered political.