The city among collections: fragments of the collective Salve Rainha and Torquato Neto in Teresina, Piauí
Teresina, Salve Rainha, Torquato Neto, Collections, City
This dissertation proposes, as a central theme, to reflect on urban collectives active in Brazilian cities, in particular those that emerged from the beginning of the 21st century. These groups tension the public spaces of their respective urban contexts through interventions in different languages, mobilizing references and cultural themes as a way of claiming social demands. In this context, we propose to reflect specifically on the case of the city of Teresina-Piauí, based on the urban practices carried out by the collective Salve Rainha between 2014 and 2018; With this, we seek to understand what vision or understanding of the city was claimed by the group throughout its trajectory from fragments that relate to the city and are the result of its actions. For this, we organize and systematize the Salve Rainha collection based on the mobilization of documents, conversations with interlocutors and, above all, through the mobilization of visual sources produced by the collective. Based on unlikely research gestures, with images as guides on this journey, we juxtapose the connection between Salve Rainha and the collection of the poet Torquato Neto in order to recognize survivals between these images that help us to build the idea of the city that runs through this research. With this, we perceive how the imaginative dimension was mobilized by the collective in order to narrate urban practices of a restless – and even subversive – youth that showed an urgency to occupy spaces in that city.