Sereias ou refugiadas: o mal, a beleza e o visível dos desvios de sentido

Abstract

This article proposes diverse configurations for mermaids, living beings that since ancient times provoke and attract in many aspects our imaginary around strangeness and monstrosity. To approach this mythological universe I suggest the mermaid as a metaphor for the refugee women, for being an outsider presence coming from overseas and suggesting new forms of thinking the otherness in an apparent unceasing moving between non places, configuring herself also as a creator of new visualities and sonorities, as in a nomad scene where signs and maps are constantly undone to announce a contemporaneity without epistemological or communicational borders.