Untitled
Portraying the beauty, subjectivity and power of a female, non-symmetrical, LGBTQIA+ body. The choice for the traditional language of secular painting in oil on canvas comes from the understanding that these portraits have always been designed to designate a certain kind of validation upon the portrayed bodies, like molds of beauty and status. Thus, the idea is to appropriate this language by proposing a look of enchantment, validation and power upon a body that is not socially seen as beautiful.
Geoneide Brandão
Co-creation: Geo Brandão and Eliene Berto
Technique: Oil on canvas
Year: 2021
Original dimensions: 80 x 100cm
Maceió - Alagoas - Brazil
Geo Brandão is a visual artist from Alagoas Brazil and visual arts undergraduate student at Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE). She works with several visual “languages” and is developing a research project about painting, whose goal is to represent LGBTQIA+ bodies by creating positive narratives of power, contemplation and emancipation of the dissident bodies in question.
Eliene Berto is a Social Sciences student at Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), a woman, disabled (defiça) and LGBTQIA+. She researches about disabled bodies and gender relations, supporting the issues that guide them. Her research focuses on the educational area of Maceió.