Objective:

To present the main learnings of the incorporation of art as a mediator in a research about reports of farmer care around food and agricultural production.

Materials and methods:

A qualitative research oriented by Participatory Action Research (PAR) was conducted. Interviews, participant observation and social mapping, in dialogue with artistic techniques for the production of data and the dissemination of findings, were developed.

Results:

The contributions of art to the construction of the reports are described through the incorporation of an object with a strong symbolic load, to be materialized and encourage their dissemination embodied in the sculpture "Memorias sobre machetes".

Discussion:

Although it was not its intention, the experience is close to the emerging movement of research based on the art, which was expressed in breaks and joints from the artistic technique point of view, the investigative process and the transdisciplinary dialog between art and nursing.

Conclusions:

1) Strengthening of the pattern of aesthetic knowledge in nursing, 2) Strengthening of the qualitative research from the contributions of art, 3) Recognition of the voices that are found in the margins of the social system and 4) Strategic art Inputs for the construction of reports.

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