In recent years, many visual artists working in the intersection between art and spirituality gained visibility on the Brazilian artistic scene. The inspiration for this essay is found in the shifts that this production allows us to discern in relation to the very notion of art. Mobilizing practices and rituals linked to Afro-Indigenous religions and ancestralities, these artists dismantle the project of colonial epistemicide insofar as they challenge categories which are fundamental to the structuring of Western reason. Artists Ayrson Heráclito and Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, who have spirituality as a central axis of their poetics, constitute the artistic corpus of this research.
Icaro Ferraz Vidal (Mon,) studied this question.