Busão: poética pictórica do coletivo urbano

Abstract

This research in Visual Arts proposes a dialogue between painting and the everyday life of urban buses, using semiotic concepts to decode the elements of this transportation mode into symbols of sociability in public transit. The serialized set named Omnes Omnibus, or Busão (2023), consisting of seven paintings, explores the physical proximity among passengers on the bus in contrast to the distancing prevalent in routine social relationships. This concept is developed based on the author's experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic, where isolation became a part of daily life. The research draws on theoretical studies by authors such as Alcântara Jr. and Careri to shed light on sociability within the bus and to understand walking as urban intervention, creating a poetic perspective of this space in painting. Additionally, the research describes a field research process and a creative process, culminating in the pictorial compositions of the serialized set, as well as their exhibition on the walls of the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU) and, subsequently, in a poetic action with a route between the mentioned building and the central terminal of Uberlândia (MG). Thus, the work offers a reflection on personal experiences with social isolation and daily life in the communal space of the bus, while the interaction of art with this space creates new forms of engagement that the rigid walls of academia cannot produce.