Direito à Saúde Mental e Desinstitucionalização: Arte, Memória e Resistência como Garantias Fundamentais

This article offers a critical reflection on the right to mental health by articulating justice, biopolitics, and cultural production. It analyzes the history of madness as a path of institutional exclusion, where psychiatry has operated as a tool for normalization and rights violations. This is a qualitative study with a deductive and documentary approach, based on authors such as Leme, Foucault, Almeida, Pelbart e Segato. The objective is to investigate how art contributes to the realization of human rights in care contexts. The findings show that, despite legal advances such as Law 10.216/2001, the risk of setbacks persists. It concludes that art can serve as political language and a tool for emancipation, reinforcing care centered on dignity.