Abstract

FLORES, Teresa Mendes; VASCONCELOS, Soraya; MATEUS, Catarina  and  ROSA, Carmen Loureiro. Repairing Colonial Violence Against Women: Revisiting Mulheres Sempre Presentes. Vista [online]. 2024, n.13, e024008.  Epub June 30, 2024. ISSN 2184-1284.  https://doi.org/10.21814/vista.5528.

This essay resumes the project Mulheres Sempre Presentes (Women Always Present) produced for the exhibition "O Impulso Fotográfico. (Des)arrumar o Arquivo Colonial" (The Photographic Impulse. (Dis)placing the Colonial Archive). The proposal aims to resignify analogue photographs of Portuguese colonial physical anthropology by removing them from their original context and inserting them into a new one. The goal is to stop the reproduction of negative stereotypes about the Black women in these photographs. These stereotypes are prevalent in the archive of colonial anthropology surveys, from which the portraits were selected. The choice of Black women's portraits is intended to honour the enduring struggles undertaken by Black populations throughout history and to underscore their role as agents of historical processes in patriarchal societies, both European and traditional African, where they are often marginalised. The essay also combines the different voices and reflections of its authors, drawing inspiration from Spivak's (1988/2021) essay Pode a Subalterna Tomar a Palavra? (Can the Subaltern Speak?), which addresses the conditions of women when speaking and being heard and interrogates their position of subalternity.

Keywords : women's portraits; physical anthropology; bertillonage; resignification; reparation.

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