O contraerótico: violência contra a mulher na arte brasileira

Abstract

In the 1960s and 1970s, artists from different origins who became the protagonists of contemporary art addressed violence against women - whether physical, social, historical, psychological or symbolic, especially in the fields of performance, photoperformance and the arts of the body , shaping what we will understand and define as a counter-erotic category. Counter-eroticism is a concept that is based on a response to this type of violence and that reframes elements of the erotic in art, in order to denounce and break the tradition of silence. In Brazil, a country of great artists and with high levels of gender violence, there are few works that address the subject before the second decade of the 21st century. The implementation of patriarchal structures during the country's colonization process was reformulated in the Republic during modernization and used artistic iconography and, later, the cultural industry as a symbolic apparatus. Later, in the period between 1964 and 1989, while feminist art was emerging in worldwide, in Brazil, the Military Dictatorship, with strong repression and censorship, added to the great social inequality in the country, that affected our cultural production in a unique way. The analysis of countererotic works of art in Brazil is presented here from clues and insights, inductions that show a common line between the structures that operate eroticism and power, desire and violence.