This academic research presents an analysis of the work Bastidores (1997), by
Rosana Paulino. It is understood that the work forms meanings and definitions, based
on the theory of symbolic forms, developed by the German philosopher Ernst Cassirer.
Bastidores is a series of photographs of black women produced by printing
photographs on fabric, in which mouths, eyes, forehead and throat were
sewn/embroidered with dark thread, in a tangle of disordered stitches/traces. The
research was characterized as a qualitative investigation, starting from an
epistemological approach. The following topics were considered and, later, the
following reference sources. As for the themes, there are: race, racism, racial
democracy, representations of black women in art and the meanings and meanings
that can be attributed to the work Bastidores. As reference sources: Nepomuceno
(2013), Carneiro (2011); Gomes (2005); Neuza (2008); Cassirer (1994). Furthermore,
the foundations of interdisciplinary social research of a qualitative nature were sought
as a reference basis, touching on issues of culture and territory, using authors such as
Cassirer (1994); Pigeon (2006); Haesbaert (2007); Bhabha (1998). As research
contributions, it was highlighted that art, as a symbolic form, assigns meaning to the
world and to the manifestations of human action (artist), as well as meanings and
meanings to the artistic work produced by Rosana, in the work object of study of this
academic research. This time, the work Bastidores, by raising several layers of
possible readings, makes it possible to understand how the representations of black
women, in this artistic work, permeate social discussions about racism, so violently
present in social relationships.
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