We can identify in the history of Brazilian art/education, two founding narratives, those of Paulo Freire and Ana Mae Barbosa. Both were drawn up from their first productions, taking account of contextual links, between ‘place’ and ‘world’, between local and global. Their work has never followed borders, geographical or epistomic boundaries. It is of this expansive nature that we will deal here with the global and colonial aspects of the works of these two key references to the Brazilian fields of education and art/education. Expansion carried out both by the ‘incurable fracture of exile’ 1 and embodied by the transnational reception of these epistemologies. Freire’s narrative will be revisited here by the updated reception 2 in view of bell Hooks’ black feminism. Ana Mae Barbosa’s reading by Ramon Cabrera Salort on his triangular approach. Outlining some of the key concepts in these formulations, we will address here “another globalisation” as understood by Milton Santos and the term of colonial (s) not only by the theoretical dimension of Walter Mignolo, Aníbal Quijano and Catherine Walsh, but also in its poetic dimension by the narratives of Grada Kilomba, Rosana Paulino and Chimamanda Adiche.