Performative Seams

the table set by artist Ana Fraga

Abstract

The present article is a clipping of the dissertation carried out in the Cultural Criticism Program finished in 2019 and brings to the debate issues related to the processes of erasure of artist women in the field of art, taking into consideration the still prevailing patterns of patriarchalism, sexism, phallocratic that still permeate the artistic context making it difficult for artist women to make their work visible, which is even more aggravated in the countryside of Bahia’s State. In addition to that, the research shows the path of the artist Ana Fraga, from São Félix, Bahia, highlighting some of her productions and in special making a closer approach to the work The Placed Table from 2005, held at the Française Alliance Gallery, at the exhibition in honor of the artist José Pancetti. The work in question proposed in an acid way the breaking of standards and violence directed to women, because it was made of metaphors that signaled – mainly by the breaking of the tableware on which were printed misogynist phrases, in the blue color created by the artist Pancetti – a proposition for everyone to undo the stereotypes, shatter the imposed standards. It is worth mentioning that one of the guiding points for the production of Placed Table was Pancetti's violent relationship with his wife Anita Caruso, therefore, the artist inverts the logic of "pay homage" and uses the proposed theme by the exhibition curator to question the passers-by about the role, place of women in society breast.

[Received on: May 21, 2022 – Accepted on: June 18, 2022]