ABSTRACT
Considered a cultural phenomenon, skin is a site through which community is enacted, and can be understood as part of a collective invention. Artists invent skins with elaborate sensibilities so that they become responsible agents for changing the skin of the world. Images are not closed objects with fixed content. They have a porosity that sometimes absorbs the world, and sometimes let itself be absorbed by the world. Phenomenology was an important issue for Brazilian avant-gardes such as concretism5 and neoconcretism because the perceptual proposals of the body, the limits of the visible, found an immediate resonance in artistic practices. In this sense, phenomenology in Brazil, beyond its philosophical field, has provided new encounters and interpretations that have resulted in works and artistic practices. The procedural dimension in art is a fundamental fact in the relations between crisis and community.
