A ressignificação dos direitos humanos: descolonizando a arte, potencializando os imaginários

Abstract

The paper discusses the connection between art and human rights as an instrument for the decolonization of art. Deals with the mechanisms of the coloniality of knowledge in the conformation of the myths of modernity as the idea of progress and superiority linked to the European, forms that historically built brands in the conception of what has artistic value. This formulation carries the signs of hierarchy, of universality, of the center/periphery division, of erudition and of the popular opposite to the standard accepted as technical and beautiful. From the perspective of culture of Herrera Flores, denounces the intolerance to alternative epistemologies that justify the oppressions of the popular sectors and we propose a decolonization of art. Art, according to these lenses, works as a reaction to the processes of colonial violence with the potential to reverse the pole of relations by guaranteeing a voice to the marginalized who intervene and transform reality into the struggle for dignity and rights.