Esboços de um habitar em construção

Abstract

This research proposes an investigation into the dimensions of inhabit based on the analysis of artistic works developed by women since the 1970s, as well as images and texts from public and private archives that deal with the house, memory and the relations between domesticity, gender, race and class. The choice of such a theme reflects the relevance of this production within the contemporary scenario and aims to highlight the centrality of the house, of domestic space, in the poetics of female artists in order to investigate the role of this space in female artistic construction. The artists' research came from investigations into museum collections, thematic exhibitions and, mainly, from exhibitions held in the last five years that had women's artistic production as their central theme. The objective is to reflect on possible and other ways of living, taking into consideration the body-territory, the land-territory, based on the conception brought by the community feminist Lorena Cabnal and the home-territory. Here, the idea of home comes from an expanded conception, where not only the architectural quality matters, but also its subjective character. For this, I rely on the studies of Lúcia Leitão and Juhani Pallasmaa who think about architecture and the contemporary way of living beyond material issues, reflecting on the imaginary and discussing how the way we relate with the built space is related to our existence and construction of subjectivity. It is clear how the relationships between home and women within feminine poetics are constant and profuse, presenting different strategies and motivations and enabling approaches from different forms and contexts. To understand and expand such questions, I explored historical studies, feminist theories, gender, race and class, especially in dialogue with the authors bell hooks and Silvia Federici. Continuing the investigation into history, experience, memory and the different temporalities present in images, studies by Walter Benjamin and Georges Didi-Huberman are fundamental in this research.