The power of the grotesque: carnival, death and renewal in Com o coração saindo pela boca, by Jonathas de Andrade
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Jonathas De Andrade; carnival; grotesque; body; death; renewal.Abstract
At the 59h Venice Biennale, the brazilian artist Jonathas De Andrade exhibited the image of a dismembered body based on a whole series of typical expressions of familiar and popular brazilian language that, precisely, allude to different body parts. Therefore, in this paper we intend to analyze this exhibition, considering that it reproduces a grotesque and carnivalesque conception of the world and the body. Thus, the article demonstrates the way in which De Andrade’s work can be approached from this perspective, as well as the way in which it carries an undoubted political-disruptive power inasmuch as it promotes, by its own grotesque and carnevalesque logic, the degradation and relativization of hegemonic norms, codes, identities and forms of corporality, thereby opening the possibility for their reform, change and renewal.
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