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Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture
O arquivo corporal
aquarelas e graffitis de Annie Ganzala
Naomi Pueo Wood
Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, Vol. 1 No. 3, July 2019; (pp. 25-43) DOI: 10.1525/lavc.2019.130004
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This article analyzes the watercolor and graffiti art of the Afro-Brazilian, lesbian visual artist Annie Ganzala. It argues that Ganzala’s focus on the erotic (Audre Lorde) and the centrality of black women’s pleasure contributes to a collective healing centered on sensorial and corporeal knowledges. Ganzala’s paintings and graffiti art augment a contemporary archive that privileges sensorial and embodied knowledges as a method to decenter the white Eurocentric focus on written texts for documenting and recounting colonial and contemporary histories. Simultaneously, her pieces reflect black lesbian desire and sensuality in order to create spaces for social protest and collective healing for black lesbian women in Brazil and the African diaspora. This article discusses seven watercolor paintings and two murals to showcase the ways that Ganzala’s technique focuses on black female love in relation to community and spirituality through omitting a recognizable context or backdrop and instead centering the bodies and shared desires among the women. It argues that these works contribute to an imagined queer utopic space where such erotic and spiritual love is the center of collective healing and a site of archival knowledge still being unveiled through decolonial artistic practices.

RESUMEN Este artículo analiza las pinturas en acuarela y el grafiti de la artista visual afro-brasileña y lesbiana Annie Ganzala. El presente artículo sostiene que el enfoque de Ganzala en lo erótico (Audre Lorde) y la centralidad del placer sexual de las mujeres negras contribuyen a una curación colectiva centrada en los conocimientos sensoriales y corporales. Las pinturas y el grafiti de Ganzala aumentan un archivo contemporáneo que privilegia los conocimientos sensoriales y corporales como un método para descentrar el enfoque blanco y eurocéntrico en los textos escritos para documentar y relatar historias coloniales y contemporáneas. Simultáneamente, sus obras reflejan el deseo y la sensualidad de las lesbianas negras para crear espacios para la protesta social y la curación colectiva de las mujeres lesbianas negras en Brasil y en la diáspora africana. Este artículo analiza siete pinturas en acuarela y dos murales para mostrar las formas en que la técnica de Ganzala se centra en el amor femenino negro en relación con la comunidad y la espiritualidad al omitir un contexto o un fondo reconocibles y, en cambio, concentrar en los cuerpos y los deseos compartidos entre las mujeres. Este trabajo sostiene que estas obras contribuyen a un espacio utópico queer imaginado, donde este tipo de amor erótico y espiritual es el centro de la curación colectiva y un lugar de conocimiento archivístico que aún se está revelando a través de las prácticas artísticas decoloniales

RESUMO Este artigo analisa as aquarelas e os grafites da artista afro-brasileira e lésbica, Annie Ganzala. O texto argumenta que o foco das obras de Ganzala no erótico (Audre Lorde) e a centralidade do prazer das mulheres negras contribuem para uma cura coletiva que centraliza o conhecimento corporal e sensorial. As aquarelas e os grafites de Ganzala somam a um arquivo contemporâneo que privilegia os conhecimentos sensoriais e corporais como metodologia para decentralizar o foco branco eurocêntrico nos textos escritos como forma privilegiada para a documentação das histórias coloniais e contemporâneas. Simultaneamente, as obras de Ganzala refletem o desejo e a sensualidade das lésbicas negras para também criar espaços de protesto e de cura coletiva para as mulheres negras no Brasil e na diáspora Afro. Neste artigo, são discutidas sete aquarelas e dois grafitis para demonstrar as maneiras pelas quais a técnica de Ganzala centraliza o amor entre lésbicas negras em relação à comunidade e espiritualidade ao omitir as referências a um contexto ou pano de fundo específico e, em vez disso, centrar-se nos corpos e desejos compartilhados entre as mulheres. Postula-se que as obras de Ganzala reforçam um espaço utópico queer imaginado onde os desejos eróticos e espirituais formam o centro da cura coletiva e também um espaço para o crescimento de um arquivo corporal que ainda se revela através de práticas descoloniais.

  • Annie Ganzala
  • black lesbians
  • Brazil
  • corporeality
  • decolonial studies
  • erotic
  • queer studies
  • sexuality
PALABRAS CLAVE
  • Annie Ganzala
  • Brasil
  • corporalidad
  • estudios decoloniales
  • estudios eróticos
  • estudios queer
  • lesbianas negras
  • sexualidad
PALAVRAS-CHAVE
  • Annie Ganzala
  • Brasil
  • corporealidade
  • erótico
  • estudos descoloniais
  • estudos queer
  • lésbicas negras
  • sexualidade
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aquarelas e graffitis de Annie Ganzala
Naomi Pueo Wood
Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, Vol. 1 No. 3, July 2019; (pp. 25-43) DOI: 10.1525/lavc.2019.130004
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aquarelas e graffitis de Annie Ganzala
Naomi Pueo Wood
Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, Vol. 1 No. 3, July 2019; (pp. 25-43) DOI: 10.1525/lavc.2019.130004
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