The Flesh and the Remains: Looking at the Work of Berna Reale

Abstract

Reading with and against Butler’s Frames of War , Ana Bernstein explores the works of Brazilian artist Berna Reale, whose performances and video art protest the violence inflicted on the precarious lives of Brazil’s lower classes, women, people of colour, gays and lesbians, the homeless, the landless, and street kids; those who suffer most from the state’s neoliberal policies. Pushing a cart filled with the bones of murder victims, being carried naked like a slaughtered animal through the streets of Belém, or lying naked in the local central market with her body covered by raw meat while vultures swarm over her, Reale employs an aesthetics of shock to reverse what she terms the numbing effects of ‘the intimacy of violence’, which shields the state from activist protest. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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