PICTORIAL GUERRILLA

O USO DA PINTURA EM UMA ABORDAGEM FEMINISTA PRETA COMO FERRAMENTA DE CRÍTICA SOCIAL NO CONTEXTO URBANO PERIFÉRICO.

Abstract

This article examines how my pictorial production (feminist, Black, and from the peripheries), developed during my postgraduate studies in the PPGAV at UDESC in Santa Catarina, has brought social issues and debates into academia, reinventing strategies for Black peripheral activism in enclosed and exclusionary spaces such as art galleries and museums in Florianópolis. Discussions on combating urban violence against Black people and claiming the right of Black bodies to occupy (use and enjoy) Brazil's public spaces have inspired this writing, which centers on the case study of the exhibition "In Legitimate Defense," on display at Lama Gallery in Florianópolis until December 6, 2025. This exhibition is connected to a visual and political dialogue with my master's dissertation titled "Survival Manual: Struggles of a Black Woman Artist in Combating Structural Racism." Drawing from Black feminist epistemologies, counter-colonial studies (SANTOS, 2023), and Conceição Evaristo's methodology of escrevivência (2020), I discuss how artistic poetics can transform into a tool of resistance by using unconventional mediums, mediatized images of urban violence, domestic objects, and state symbols to create works that radically denounce the genocide of Black and peripheral bodies. I further argue that my work constitutes a form of aesthetic direct activism aimed at challenging visibility regimes regarding the right to occupy public space without being murdered by the State. The role of visual art and performances in reinventing direct activism and occupying public space.