“NÃO ME AGUARDE NA RETINA”

Abstract

As scientific practices of knowledge in the field of the arts lend legitimacy to standards of beauty – deciding who deserves and who does not deserve to be seen - as well as notions of truth and falsehoods, it is important to understand and question which bodies and geographical regions western art history considers and what limits and categories it imposes. This text aims to spark reflection on the need to think about other aesthetic parameters and ethical codes for racially-determined, vulnerable and dissident bodies. So, based on our own experience, we propose what we are calling a curatorial practice from the perspective of black women. One that takes into account other perspectives of knowledge, developing discourse of these perspectives within the aesthetic field but also establishing an ethical code in institutional structures. Because curatorship holds a strategic position within the system of culture and art, the text calls for reflection on the experience of three curatorial projects: the exhibition Diálogos Ausentes (2016/2017), the AfroTranscendence programme (2015 -) and “Não me aguarde na retina” for the Valongo International Festival of Image (2018).

Keywords

• black feminism
• art
• latin american art
• afro-brazilian art
• decolonial studies
• curatorship