O CORPO, SUAS REPRESENTAÇÕES NAS ARTES VISUAIS E OS DIREITOS HUMANOS

Abstract

The present article aims to contribute to the reflection on gender violence in art through the lens of human rights. The study begins with the vandalism that took place in the lithography studio of the Museu da Gravura de Curitiba, consisting of the attack on the lithographic slab of the artist Maria Cunha, that contained the image of a male nude model’s kneeled torso, constituted in eroticism. The problem of investigation consists of the analysis of the work as a possible critique to patriarchy and the objectification of the female body. To think of the attempt at destruction of the artist’s work involves, necessarily, the deepening in the theoretical and practical contributions of feminist movements. The article conducted a literary review and analysis of the vandalised work as the method to reach its specific intended goals. From the research done, it was possible to conclude that adopting the feminist or artivist identity, as the pioneers of those movements did, is essential in the present setting, in which women are made invisible, silenced, and murdered. By intersectioning art and human rights, answers that enable poetic freedom are produced, making possible to the artist that had its work vandalised to replicate the violence it suffered.