Aos olhos dos que não vemos: expressividades artísticas dos moradores da Unidade de Acolhimento Abrigo Institucional Residência Inclusiva II, em Pelotas/RS

Abstract

This research investigates how artistic practices can develop expressive spaces. In this sense, we seek to think about the reality of art that walks in convergence with mental health, given that both work with the subjectivity of individuals. Subjectivity is understood here as something that is constructed and modified daily, based on meetings. Even today, many social institutions still, in a way, dominate and, due to their structural conditions, isolate individuals from everyday life, among them, psychiatric hospitals. Given this context, the Institutional Shelter Residência Inclusiva II, in the city of Pelotas/RS, emerges as an alternative to compulsory hospitalization and severe isolation imposed by these institutions and, therefore, was the object of research in this dissertation. Based on a methodology structured around field research, conducting interviews and participating research through the mediation of activities that work with different artistic languages, it was possible to collect observations and develop reflections about the subjectivities, emerging in the experience processes in art, of the residents of the aforementioned shelter. In the final considerations, reflections are brought regarding the difficulties and strengths in the application of the workshops, with the objective of sharing the observations and learnings about the theme, among which we highlight the importance of an approximation of the reality in which the activities will be applied, the problematization of the expectation of “beauty” in the field of art and the mandatory participation in workshops as an obstacle to full expressiveness.