Visualidades e subjetivação na arte-educação contemporânea: imagem e experiência nos “Metaesquemas” de Hélio Oiticica

Abstract

This work proposes a critical reflection on the relationship between visual culture and art education, investigating how the education of visual culture can reshape pedagogical practices in the teaching of visual arts, making them more contemporary, sensitive, and meaningful for students. The research, bibliographic in nature with a reflective approach, is based on the understanding that visuality is not merely a natural fact, but rather a historical, symbolic, and political construction. In this sense, images do not only represent the world but also actively participate in the production of subjectivities, identities, and social meanings. The study highlights how regimes of visuality permeate the gaze and shape ways of seeing, being seen, and imagining, which requires art education to adopt a critical, ethical, and dialogical stance. By considering children and adolescents as culture producers, immersed in complex visual ecologies and mediated by digital language, the work argues that schools should recognize these subjects as authors of visual narratives and active agents in the construction of meanings. The analysis addresses concepts such as subjectivation, visual regimes, and the construction of meaning, arguing for an educational practice that transcends formal appreciation and embraces diverse languages and visual repertoires. As an example, the study explores the analysis of a work from the "Metaesquemas" series by Hélio Oiticica, in dialogue with the visual systems of digital games, revealing intersections between art, design, and interactivity. It concludes that visual culture expands and transforms art education by proposing pedagogies attentive to the transformations of sensibility, cultural diversity, and new ways of seeing and inhabiting the world. In this context, the education of visual culture emerges as a fertile field for pedagogical practices that integrate critique, affect, listening, and invention.