VISUALITIES OF COLONIALITY: CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF GENRE STRUCTURES IN VISUAL CULTURE FOR A LIBERATING EDUCATION

Abstract

This work brings reflections that bring the field of Visual Culture closer to Decolonial perspectives through epistemological reflections expressed here in the correlation between Visuality/Coloniality. By understanding that the cultural practice of looking, historically makes visible or makes invisible and denies certain subjects and knowledge (ROSE, 2016) and that the subversion of coloniality's logic of power permeates the theoretical/ethical/aesthetic/political dimensions (SEGATO, 2012). To this end, we critically analyze visualities of the coloniality of power, from historical works to internet memes that objectify women within the family in Brazil, a country with high statistics of femicide - a crime that occurs mostly in family relationships. In this way, we envision cultural constructions that underlie the maintenance and naturalization of violent practices of domination, which constitute the ways in which we see or not the existence of subjects in the world. Faced with this phenomenon and based on the analyzes carried out in the present work, we follow the clues left by Paulo Freire (2004) and seek to delimit the role of education, beyond the school, as an instrument of women's autonomy and liberation marked in the conception of transgressive education by the black feminist writer Bell Hooks (2013).