Série Insurreição: a arte transvestigênere como ferramenta de ativismo.

Abstract

The present work aims to present studies and theoretical reflections and register the creative process of the series of paintings Insurrection. Both objectives come from a vision created from personal experiences and awareness of the sociocultural and political context in which this experience is inserted, and which serves as a starting point to discuss social activism with a focus on the transgender population and their fight against fetishism, transphobia and other types of violence experienced daily. Each painting addresses a topic seen as taboo, based on Christian iconographies: transphobia, gender dysphoria, gender affirmation medical procedures and pornography/prostitution as the only possible source of income. As the high activist content evokes, in my understanding, the access to a larger and diverse public, it was decided to reproduce and exhibit the paintings in the streets of the city of Campo Grande- MS, shaped like wheat-paste posters, due to the number and diversity of people who could view them, with the aim of making art as public as possible,in order to show society how the trans population is marginalized and violated, every day.

Keywords: Transgender Art; Activism; Public Art; Painting