Photography as a device to discuss invisibilizes identities: Rosana Paulino

Abstract

If memory is a protection against disappearance in Andreas Huyssen's conception, debating denied humanities is a way of doing social justice to those who have their rights usurped. Discussing the ideologies of oppression configured by the historical invisibility of black women and how to resist this is one of the purposes addressed in the works of Brazilian artist Rosana Paulino. With works such as Bastidores, A Parede da Memória, Assentamento, Geometria Brasileira chega ao Paraíso Tropical, Série Paraíso Tropical e História Natural, created from photographs of black bodies and the relationship between art, science and the history of slavery, Paulino fights against prejudice, power and coercion – elements that marked the legacy of slavery. It is necessary to break the violence of an excluding and dehumanized reality that, unfortunately, is still perpetuated, and give voice to those who continue to be silenced and have their social belonging denied by part of the patriarchal society, according to Djamila Ribeiro.