A face is a risk

This paper presents some preliminary results of the study “The sexualized face: critical pedagogy of the visual arts.” The face appears as an element and expression of significant artistic and aesthetic potencies in different valorative gradations. The research aimed to analyze the relations between the face and its meanings, which refer to places, historical speeches, and self-creations; besides producing orthodox and heterodox pedagogies. Photography was the medium used to capture face posing, since they contain the ambiance of a faciality, a localized and cosmopolitan significance, promoting ethical arrangements. One outcome of this research was to expose, along with the photos, this greatnes