Mulheres negras na fotografia contemporânea [Ana Lira e Valda Nogueira]

Abstract

In the recent history of Brazil, advances in terms of economic growth, increased schooling, poverty reduction, resulting from social policies associated with the adoption of affirmative action, especially in the field of education, have produced a clear improvement in the living conditions of the Afro-Brazilian. However, the new opportunities opened up were insufficient to bring about a significant reduction in racial and gender inequalities. Racism and sexism combine to delineate, in society, visions that stereotype and classify the capabilities and attributes of black women, in order to produce differentiated conditions of access to rights and opportunities. In the last decade, black visual artists have achieved greater spaces to expose their works in the circuit of art, but the hegemonic narratives in contemporary art, drawn from a Eurocentric perspective, reflect and reinforce asymmetric relations of power. In this sense, this dissertation presents the experience of black women in contemporary photography with the collaboration of the photographers Ana Lira and Valda Nogueira to discuss the presence and representativeness of these artists in the circuit of the visual arts