Exhibitionism and blurring in brazilian artistic practices of the ’80s

Abstract

The aim of this article is to explore Brazilian artistic expressions of the 80s that are framed by the end of the military dictatorships, when the question of the missing bodies becomes a symptom of Culture in the Southern Cone. In these series of writings, interventions, performances, experimental books, bodies are made visible in the public space through two strain forces: exhibitionism and blurs, which open an imaginary in response to repression and the fracture of socialist projects, as well as they put forward alternative heritages, pasts, and forms of resistance.

Keywords:
brazilian artistic practices; body; public space; art & politics; postdictatorship