“Adjetivo Feminino”

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Abstract

This text presents the artist's book "Adjetivo Feminino: dicionário de experiências" (Female Adjective: a dictionary of experiences), a participatory work that received testimonies from 41 women about adjectives used to characterize them that have marked them throughout their lives, linked to their gender, from which 59 entries were created. Through the analysis of this work, we seek to understand to what extent women are seen as subjects at the present time, in the face of a history of objectification and domesticity, so that their speeches can be recognized and plural narratives about this gender can be incorporated into society. Using the articulation developed by Judith Butler (2003, 2021) between John Austin's theory of speech acts (1990) and the concept of gender performativity, we investigate the effects of language on the experiences that shape the category "woman", as well as the possibilities of displacing or re-signifying normative gender discourses through the creation of poetic counter-narratives. In this sense, the artistic production of women is also understood as a power to transform patriarchal statements, as advocated by Griselda Pollock (2007), which demonstrates the relevance of the still necessary discussion about the presence of women in the arts.