| Resumo: | The traditional riverside communities of Amazonia are human groups that live mostly from subsistence fishing and populate the Amazon River banks and its tributaries. Such communities use simple and primitive fishing elements in everyday life and they experience deficiencies at various levels since they lack infrastructures. The fishing elements are responsible for the survival of the community and to the fishermen mean their intimacy, their home, the positive energies and life, something that is the extension of the community and without which they do not exist. Thus, the general objective of the investigation sought to understand the relation and the meaning of the fishing elements for the Iri community and vice versa, in this case, its function for everyday life and for the subsistence of this community. The choice of this community was due to the researcher's membership in one of these Amazonian communities, in the case of the Iri Community of the Guajará river, located in the Municipality of Prainha (State of Pará-Brazil). The realization of this study is based on this artistic look for the traditional and primitive objects with another sensitivity, which transported us to the artistic movements of the twentieth century that used the resignification. From the methodological point of view, the study follows a qualitative-descriptive approach based on a theoretical perspective (supported by authors such as Bachelard, Beuys, Clark, Tostes or Salles) and practice, on the production process of fourteen contemporary sculptures between december 2015 and june 2016 in the community, these sculptures in wood, re-signifying certain subsistence fishing elements (canoes, rowing, rod, gourds, bow (cuia), arrow, reed, fishing line, harpoon) of the Iri Community. As a result, the investigation has given us a phenomenological and polysemic resignification of its fishing elements and its transformation into "artistic objects", that allow the identification of the Iri community not only by its inhabitants as well as by the general public |