Arte-atraque: fissuras e suturas na ‘nova’ arte contemporânea brasileira (2013 – 2023)

Abstract

‘Arte-Atraque’ develops through the study of the life-work of Lyz Parayzo and her movement from the margins to the center of the mundialized contemporary art circuit, an exemplary case of the recent entanglement between art and politics in the Brazilian art scene (2013–2023), a period marked by the significant entry of artists from historically marginalized groups into the national and, in some cases, international circuits, a movement known as the “Decolonial Turn” (SIMÕES PAIVA, 2023) or the “Minoritarian Turn” (VASCONCELLOS, 2021) in Brazilian contemporary art. The study focuses on the plastic bombs that Lyz Parayzo launched at Parque Lage (Rio de Janeiro) in 2015, artivist interventions with structural impact on the institution, that introduced the artist into the Brazilian art circuit. Through the notions of “atraque”: the capture of aesthetic encounter; “fissure”: the sensible and symbolic rupture; and “suture”: processes of integration of subjects and ideas, this reflection aims to observe the negotiation of meaning that characterizes the insertion of the “new” Brazilian contemporary art into the artistic circuit, a complex process of hybridization (CANCLINI, 1990), whose specificities this research seeks to examine.