Quem tem medo do lobo mau?

reflexões sobre o lugar da arte como política a partir da exposição “R de Resistencia o la vergüenza de ser hombre” (2018)

Abstract

This essay intends to reflect, even if on a preliminary way, on the three concepts concerning the theme and experience of the contemporary refuge – hostility, hospitality and welcoming – in the light of a aesthetic perspective, searching to think of ways to enunciate and the plastic strategies used in the exposition “R de Resistencia o la verguenza de ser hombre” (2018), em Madri, as a denouncement to the violent actions perpetrated by the Nacional States against those requesting asylum. Starting from two ponderings: a) how to plasticly give way to a global, constant and unstable phenomenon, having in mind the internal and external political reverberations in the recipient countries?; and b) when and in which measure the pain of another stopped being a concern of the human being?; the intention is to analise the exposition and its aesthetic dimensions.
Key-Words: aesthetic; immigration; refugee; art; contemporary