Project:

Between cinemas, galleries, and museums: race, art, and images and their circulations in cities.

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Working plan:

City, art, and memory: racial conflicts and urban poetics.

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Abstract:

The current proposal aims to investigate the relationship between memory, art, and the city through the presence of racial themes and their conflicts from an intersectional and decolonial perspective. To do so, it will study artistic tributes to black and racialized characters and personalities, as well as the actions of black and racialized artists who use city walls and streets as the preferred space for their artistic practices, evoking symbols, figures, anonymous or not, related to the history of black, racialized, and marginalized populations. Collective memory is understood here as being in permanent dispute and construction, and urban space as indispensable for its creation. Therefore, interventions on streets and walls are sought that promote the link between the history(s) of silenced populations and the demand for other ways of conceiving and telling such stories (people, dates, and places) through art.

Keywords: Visual arts; city; race; collective memory