Abstract
The essay aims to analyze the way José Leonilson’s plastic and visual art work appropriates the verbal language and build itself from the hybridism and also from the crossover between genders and borders. The artist’s art work will be read in this essay fundamentally as a poetic elaboration. It will be noticed, based on the contemporary panorama, that Leonilson’s work reveals an opening in art and literature frontier and that both of them are making an attempt to establish a dialogue with Rosalind Krauss and her work toward an expanded action field.