ARTISTS FROM THE NORTH (RE)EXIST:
ARTISTIC POETICS AS AN INSTRUMENT OF THE BODY AND GENDER IN SPACE
gender and art; geographical space; art and feminism; Northern art; feminist geography.
The purpose of this research was to investigate how space influences the poetics and narratives of women artists, highlighting gender relations in the spatial context. Through the concept of space addressed by Doreen Massey, who describes it as a surface of trajectories and possibilities from a social and contemporary perspective, the research seeks to understand the intersection between art and geography. Using the phenomenological method, inspired by Gaston Bachelard's reflections on the phenomenology of the imagination, the research looks at how the artists' experiences and interactions in space inspire their own production. Phenomenology is fundamental here, as it allows for a poetic and imaginative reading of space, highlighting the relationship between the subject and the environment. Bachelard considers poetry to be a direct product of the soul and heart, and this perspective is applied to art, seen as a profound expression of the artist's soul. The research also considers gender as a determining factor in the artists' spatial experiences and poetics. Five artists were selected, each with their own language, to analyze how geographical space manifests itself in different forms of expression. This demonstrates the breadth of the connections between art and geography, but also defines the limits of this study. Thus, the research explores how the artists' space, genre and region of residence influence their poetics and inspirations. By focusing on northern art, the research sets out to better understand the spatial context and its contributions to art.