Paintings of the Self: Ethics and Poetics in the Talking Clothes of the Visual Artist Solange Gonçalves Luciano

Abstract

This article is outlined in the field of art and unreason from the post-structuralist philosophical perspective of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. It seeks to present the work of the multi-artist Solange Gonçalves Luciano, entitled Vestes Falantes (Talking Garments), held at the Creativity Workshop at the São Pedro Psychiatric Hospital in Porto Alegre/RS. It also seeks to expand the role of arts and clothing, by investigating how the researched materials are able to establish a micro-politics that affirms life. Fashion, when understood as a device capable of moving social strata, acts as a producer of ways of life. The mentioned device refers to the set of practices that uses clothing as an inventive possibility. Through it, other ways of thinking were operated, other vital images for the creation of knowledge and actions were invented in a production of invisible layers, but producers of visible lines. The theoretical referential of the research, by means of literature review, is supported by authors who look at the historical formations and dialogue with philosophy, psychology, arts, and fashion. The research aims to build a transversal thought through the cartographic method of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. She traces with the social environment, objects, things, images, new learning and life possibilities, in which the Talking Garments created by the artist are sensitive forms referring to sensation, subjectivations, which have been called paintings of the self and make up the craftsmanship of her existence.