Artistic expression essay on hunger in Brazil

The art that manifests hunger

Abstract

By contextualizing Brazilian hunger from a perspective of creative and humanized discoveries, artistic expressions emerged re-presenting the theme through another lens: art. The urgent appeals of the hungry constitute a challenge for food systems and, especially, with regard to free and permanent access to quality food in sufficient quantity – Food and Nutrition (In)Security. In this essay, sociocultural, scientific and artistic aspects were used as inspiration, re-presenting hunger through artistic expression, resulting in two products: a string and a sound poem. Cordel, a literary genre with meter, rhyme and prayer, expresses the question of hunger in the title “Tell me why?”. The sound poem “Como tem fome?”, essentially oral and experimental, results in reflections and manifestations. The essay brought out the authors' sensibility, bringing science and art closer together, bringing responsibility to base oneself on inspirations, letting it flow and sustaining one's own creation.