Para relembrar e ressignificar memórias dolorosas

Abstract

This project aims to produce poetics of racial trauma in art and writing, with the goal of contributing to my personal healing journey and to debates on the subject. To this end, the following works served as a theoretical foundation: Plantation Memories by writer and artist Grada Kilomba; Peau noire, masques blancs by philosopher Frantz Fanon; Escrevivência: a escrita de nós – Reflexões sobre a obra de Conceição Evaristo edited by Constância Lima Duarte and Isabella Rosado Nunes; and the essays Em estado bruto and 1 (vida) ÷ 0 (negritude) = ∞ − ∞ ou ∞ / ∞: sobre a matéria além da equação de valor by philosopher Denise Ferreira da Silva. The study was conducted through bibliographic research and technical experimentation with the materials selected to create the drawings that comprise the project's practical component. The results demonstrate that visual production made it possible to reframe the traumas caused by racism and to contribute to the discourse regarding the mental health of the Black population in Brazil.