IT IS AND WILL REMAIN UNSTOPPABLE
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https://doi.org/10.33871/sensorium.2026.13.11843Keywords:
materiality; body; permanence; uncontrollable; political nature.Abstract
Abstract: This collective visual essay brings together the poetic productions of four contemporary artists: Ana do Vale, Débora Brancaglião, Miro Spinelli, and Pedro Ramos. The title "It Is and Will Remain Uncontainable" synthesizes the central proposal of these works: the affirmation of bodies that, traversed by fatness, disability, and dissent, refuse erasure and transform their own physical substance into a political field of permanence. The artists converge by using the body not only as a theme, but as a vibrant matter that occupies space in a tactile and inescapable way. Whether through fire (Vale), the overflow of flesh (Brancaglião), the viscosity of mayonnaise (Spinelli), or the thickness of dough (Ramos), all converge on the idea that dissident existence is a flow that cannot be contained. Art, in these contexts, operates as a mechanism of permanence, ensuring that these subjectivities continue to "burn" and occupy the world without ever disappearing.
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