Artigo: CASA-ATELIÊ COMO TERRITÓRIO ENTRE VIVER E CRIAR

HISTÓRIAS DE TRÊS MULHERES ARTISTAS

Abstract

This article is situated at the intersection of visual arts and architecture and investigates the perceptual and affective experience in the home-studios of three artists from Santa Catarina. The objective is to analyse how this domestic and creative space expresses the relationship between feminism and anti-capitalist criticism, by proposing ways of inhabiting and producing that challenge the modern separation between art and life, work and care. From a larger perspective, it is an effort to understand, in the artistic field, the relationship between creative spaces and the languages of each artist and, in the architectural field, to reflect on how a design methodology can be expanded to incorporate perceptual, symbolic, and subjective dimensions into the process of spatial conception. The article highlights the historicity of the relationship between women artists and their creative spaces and notes that it was women who initiated an epistemological shift from the abstraction of the ideal project to the observation of everyday life. The research, based on a transdisciplinary theoretical framework and ethnographic methodology, involved participant observation, interviews, and audiovisual recordings during an extended period of cohabitation with the artists. The phenomenological approach, based on Heidegger (2002), Norberg-Schutz (1995), Merleau-Ponty (2011) and Coccia (2024), as well as on the theoretical trajectory of Ostrower (2013), Colomina (1996), Muxí (2024) and Brito (2025), is articulated to understand the reciprocal affectations between art, housing and the body. A feminist and critical perspective is adopted, understanding home-studio as spaces of resistance and autonomy in the face of the patriarchal and capitalist structures that have historically separated life and work. The concept of the home-studio is thus proposed as a poetic image, in the terms of Gaston Bachelard, demonstrating the imaginary and affective dimensions that sustain creative living. By emphasising women in the construction of their creative territories, the article demonstrates how the studio also becomes a space for proposing situated, sensitive and emancipatory practices in the field of art and architecture.

Key-words: Home. Studio. Feminism. Poetic imagery.