Arte de terreiro matriarcal: trabalho de mulheres da Casa de Caridade Luz do Alvorecer

Abstract

In this art research I propose an investigation of the artistic poetics and creation processes of a group of daimista and umbandista women members of the Casa de Caridade Luz do Alvorecer (CCLA), of which I am also a member. The research is based on experiences and methodologies of terreiro education and decolonial approaches, to reflect on the collective and creative practices that have been developed in CCLA. I also propose to recognize these practices as tools for the emancipation of these women while they produce and reproduce ancestral visualities. To reflect on the phenomenon that occurs when the visualities of the terreiro enter into a colonial logic through the social structure. The images and their reverberations produced by the terreiro become a counter visuality, looking at the colonial visuality as a reference. The study of tools of freedom, which in a spiritual school, as producers of knowledge, rituals and thoughts, generate awareness of the prevailing hegemonic visualities, valuing the images and narratives of native peoples, through their cultural references. The collective production of knowledge produced in the CCLA are powerful tools against the epistemicide and historicide processes.