As relações entre ciência, tecnologia e história na poética antirracista de Rosana Paulino

Abstract

Rosana Paulino is a black contemporary visual artist, born in São Paulo in 1967. Her art work questions the subject position of black women and criticizes the structural racism of Brazilian society, rethinking the role of art, history and science in the construction of black bodies. This thesis aims to carry out an interpretative analysis of Rosana Paulino’s artistic production, reflecting on the subversion of technical codes, the assemblages of memories and narratives, the appropriation of history and the remaking of images. The questions that arise concern i) the ways in which Rosana Paulino constructs an anti-racist poetics and, ii) the ways in which her work leads to problematize science and technology as colonized, racist and oppressive expressions. Documentary research was the strategy used for visual collections in online collections. As a cut for the interpretative analysis, the works produced between 2012 and 2018 were privileged, considering the relations between science, technology, art and race to understand the political resonances of the anti-racist engagement with a critical visual production. The study of the materiality of Rosana Paulino’s artistic work implies ways of decolonizing knowledge, power and doing, stressing the privileges of whiteness. The cartography allowed the dialogue of different areas of knowledge, allowing to trace new itineraries and/or change the route. Due to the fluidity of the research, it was necessary to get lost and to discover to outline the maps.