Alicerce para os outros, Túmulos para os meus: o corpo negro que constrói e ocupa.

Abstract

The work presents two research studies that were produced during my undergraduate course in Visual Arts. In “Foundation for others, Tombs for mine” the plot of the work narrates how the black body and work in construction are related. The concrete pillar and the bones intertwine: the moment they are exposed in the gallery they are no longer independent. As a monument, or even memento mori, it provides the permanence of the black body that bears it, bringing its constant presence and portraying this daily burial that is manual labor. In “RESURGENCE FROM MY SELF” there is a question about the exhibition space of the white cube. These spaces in galleries and museums are understood in the artistic world as sacred, where nothing can be modified, everything is aseptic and the black bodies that built them did not occupy them. The performance manifests how my black body reacts to occupying the Laboratory Gallery space and how this place is used to legitimize students as artists. The connection between these works occurs when the black body participates in the construction of the space it now occupies.