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This article aims to describe the performance of an alternative space for education and its consequences, based on the autobiographical narratives of people who visited the Laje Collection who, after crossing these symbolic boundaries, elaborate new meanings. The Laje Collection is an alternative education space located in the slab of a house in Novos Alagados, which contains hundreds of cultural and artistic works (paintings, sculptures, images, masks of wood and aluminum, antique plates, etc.) that are produced by the residents of the Railroad suburb of Salvador, which is on the outskirts of the city. We propose various reflections on how a visit to the Laje Collection provokes new, positive, and reflexive experiences and elaborations regarding an area on the periphery that is marked by stigma. We emphasize how a visit to the Laje Collection instills the notions of knowledge of experience and poetic narratives, and how overcoming borders facilitates ruptures that are caused by the encounter with the works of art produced by artists from the periphery. The performance of the Laje Collection as an alternative education space that addresses aesthetics and artistic production on the outskirts of Salvador has promoted, beyond the permanent exhibit, several other actions that aim to spread the beauty that is produced on the periphery through exhibits, workshops, photography, and actions that may cause a change in people's perceptions about the territory and allow them to overcome stigma.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-18765-5_17

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