As tramas que sustentam os corpos: bordados, memórias e mulheres contemporâneas.

Abstract

The following dissertation comes from a line tensioned between the female ancestral traditions and the production of subjectivity in the context of contemporary textile art. The process is based on the meeting of these different times, on the marginalized narratives strategies and on the rescue of female memories through generations. The presence and power of collective and individual memories in each analyzed image is defended and it is from the images that the research moves. Nine artists of different nationalities were chosen. In common, they found in embroidery a subversive language to approach their feminine condition. One assumes the risk of being part of this process of embroidery with the artists – a metaphorical process, because here texts and textiles confuse and cross each other at any time.