ARTE E RESTITUIÇÃO DA IDENTIDADE DETERIORADA : Um estudo sobre a intervenção ‘’Women are Heroes”, do artista JR no Rio de Janeiro (2008)

Abstract

This work has as its object of study the artistic intervention “Women are Heroes” by the French artist JR, in Morro da Providência, Rio de Janeiro, 2008. Throughout the work art and identity, stigma, esteem and recognition theories cross paths, in an attempt to understand if art plays a hole in the changing of the self image of social groups, especially in stigmatized communities. By relying on interviews with the women who took part in JR’s project, I tried to understand what were the effects of the project in their personal and community life. The work takes art as a great ally of social sciences, as a political device and an expression mode. It concludes that there were positive changes, although there were potentialities of the intervention that remained unexplored.