Quebras: Uma poética travesti em pinturas da Amazônia paraense

Abstract

This descriptive memorial reflects on the series of paintings "Quebras", which connects the visual arts research of the artist-scholar with the aesthetics of the modernist movement "Raio que o Parta"—where creation emerges only through rupture, the destruction of prior forms. A qualitative, theoretical-empirical study, it examines the processes of artistic creation through poetics. The adopted methodology relies on the artist’s memory and the forgetting of all that limits her humanity, aligning with Jack Halberstam’s (2020) concept of low theory to craft a personal, autobiographical narrative. The twenty-seven (27) works presented reimagine classical painting genres by emancipating the representation of trans and travesti women—including the artist herself—from what Mariah Silva (2023) terms the cisgender gaze.