DRUNK MERMAIDS:

METÁFORAS CORPORIFICADAS NA OBRA DE ADRIANA VAREJÃO

Abstract

This article analyzes the work of Adriana Varejão “Sereias bêbadas”, recognizing art as a vehicle of meaning and visual communication. The body is a form of identification of the feminine and the masculine, but it is especially seen as a stigma of the representation of male power. It is to the scope of artistic representation that we will turn our gaze, that is, to the analysis of how the author's aesthetic gaze occurs in capturing the dominant conception in the poetics of the female body. We adopted the hermeneutical method of interpretation; modern hermeneutics encompasses not only written texts, but also everything in the interpretive process. This includes verbal and non-verbal forms of communication, as well as aspects that affect communication. Interpreting means to attribute the content, meaning and scope of a normative text, aiming at its application to a specific case.