This strategy associates the female libido with something uncontrolled and wild. In this sense, women, animals and the socalled “uncivilized people” would be closer to an eroticism that is hostage to primitive, uncontrolled and dangerous drives.
On the other hand, the lifestyles and philosophies of various indigenous peoples tell us of a continuity between humanity and all existences, between people, animals, plants, places, between what we understand as culture and nature. In this view, there would be no definitive separation between the natural and the human. Humans are part of nature and nature is part of us and therefore of what we understand by culture. People can become animals, animals can become humans, and that creates a wealth of possibilities for existence.
In the jaguar costume, Paolla deals with conventions and evokes the strength of the connection between nature and culture, between being a woman and being an animal. She shakes off the negativity of the idea of wild female libido. It touches on this idea but does not propose a cohesive alternative.
Just like carnival itself: it breaks rules, overrides them and reverses them, so that we can look at social life with new eyes, without necessarily giving answers, but bringing other perspectives within our reach.
In his latest book (“Alphabet of Collisions”), Professor Vladimir Safatle talks about ruptures, ruptures, collisions: “Perhaps the only ethical position worthy of our time should start from the search for the assumption of a fundamental ontological uncertainty. You could say that.” Ethics has become for us a lesson about how to fall and how to break yourself. There are certain moments when it becomes clear that the most important thing is knowing how to fall. Because we were created to break ourselves. […]. Prepare yourself because one day you will break and betray yourself. You will encounter something that is beyond your control, something that takes you out of your control, something that robs you of your identity, something that disorients your actions and judgment.”
Paolla walked past and became disoriented. It has disorientated your desire, my desire, our desire. And we're not just talking about desire in the sexual dimension. Desire in the psychological dimension, for the expansion of boundaries and consciousness.