Branquitude e artes visuais: um pacto burguês, sudestino e masculino

Abstract

The present study examines a system that privileges whiteness in visual arts, which is complicit in structural racism, stemming from the racial invisibility, taking to the analysis of class and location. To achieve this, it presents and analyzes and discusses data and statistics from research that disclose the racial belonging of artists legitimized by Art History and the audience attending visual arts spaces. Furthermore, it investigates the race of cultural center directors and other agents who operate within the language through heteroidentification commissions, following the model adopted in public university entrance exams, undertaken by this research between 2019 and 2024. Starting with the racial issue and utilizing both quantitative and qualitative data, the dissertation also discusses the relationship between class, location and gender markers in the representational issues of the visual arts system. It presents case studies that link decoloniality with the contemporary programming of cultural centers, and also addresses the art market and public cultural policies