Bilreiras ancestres: alumbramentos para rendilhar uma poética artística

Abstract

This research delves into the creation process of artworks from the hybrid performative arts field, which present textile yarn as their primary element of poetic expression, culminating then in the photo performance Bilreiras Ancestres as their current development. The works have been conceived based on the confluence of two distinct leitmotivs, respectively characterized as biographical-affective and political poetical: the practice of bobbin lace techniques by my great-grandmother, Maria Antônia da Conceição, an ancestral instance and creation spark of the here present poetic (MARTINS, 2021); and changes observed in this centenary know-how from its insertion among indigenous people onwards in the brazilian North and Northeast regions during the portuguese colonial time (LOPES, 2005). The relational aspect through the contact with the materials and techniques emerges as a fundamental stage for the deflagration of theoretical considerations and creative processes. This aspect reveals a dimension of entrancement by the ancestral textile technologies as a methodological and poetical resource towards the renewal of traditional knowledge through the production of contemporary art.