The exhibition Estranhamento (Strangening) aims to share the visual art work developed by researcher Catarina Casais, associated with her doctoral project Políticas de Estranhamento: Práticas de resistência e revigoração docente (Strangening Policies: Practices of resistance and teaching reinvigoration).
These drawings, linocuts, and embroideries seek connections between her artistic practice and research work, promoting possibilities for reflection on the teaching profession in the visual arts and the teaching demonstrations that took place between 2020 and 2024. The challenge in developing these works is to think, based on the materiality of the teaching demonstrations, about possible languages through the techniques and materials used. These languages reflect a desire to think about the daily reality of visual arts teachers and the moments of protest related to their professional practice.
Linocut, embroidery, and drawing become ways of addressing the issue of visual arts teaching and its politicization within the school space, inviting everyone to visit the thinking laboratory that has been developed over the last school year at Atelier Sem Forma.
This work is funded by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P, under the project “2024. 00945.BD.”
