Dos filhos deste solo: Construções

Abstract

In "Dos filhos deste solo: Construções", the image of the National Flag is seen as an icon that paves an ideological battlefield: from the monarchy to the Republic of Brazil, the projects in order to consolidate a flag sought, aesthetically, to instrumentalize the ideals of nationalism, Brazilianness and conduct the citizen of each era. Nowadays, from allegory to repulsion, the clash of the image finds itself effervescent: the partisan appropriation of the extreme right limited the meanings and purposes of the Flag to the level of conservative propaganda. On the other hand, the image resignification process can also be questioned: is it possible to neutralize a symbol? To what supposed pre-Bolsonaro unified order do we seek to return? It is up to artistic investigation, active in all phases of these clashes, the courageous work of tensioning, expanding, distorting, burning, coloring, destroying and/or (re)building the National Flag and what it represents.