Margins that shift the center

poetic spirals in insurgent practices of Rosângela Silvestre, Astrid González, and Kettly Noël

Resumo

This article analyzes the artistic practices of Rosângela Silvestre, Astrid González, and Kettly Noël, highlighting how their work articulates body, territory, and spiral temporality. Using qualitative research, including literature review, class observation, and critical analysis, the study investigates how these artists activate ancestral and contemporary knowledge to create embodied technologies of resistance and reinvention. The article demonstrates that their practices challenge linear and Eurocentric conceptions of time, proposing a dynamic relationship between tradition and contemporaneity. It also emphasizes the black female body as a political and poetic territory, central to building other epistemologies and affirming black presences in Latin American art. The study concludes that their trajectories not only contest imposed margins but also create their own ways of teaching, dancing, and existing, where the body becomes a pedagogical, performative, and discursive space.