The dissertation aims to highlight the creative potential of childhood within a heterogeneous set of contemporary artistic creations. It intends to reveal zones of proximity between artistic creations and distinct ideas of childhood through reflections on play, questioning, enumeration, and fabulation. The axis for this analysis is the direct and indirect invocation of childhood in a selected corpus of works, with an emphasis on semantic twists, subversion of preconceived ideas, wordplay, and statements. The goal is to identify childhood as a creative procedure in the works of artists such as Rivane Neuenschwander, Lenora de Barros, Nazareno, and Javier Naranjo, among others, based on the thoughts of authors like D. W. Winnicott, Giorgio Agamben, Roger Caillois, and Walter Benjamin. These excerpts and works retain reminiscences of a child s imaginary in their form of composition. Childhood — this era or place — has been prematurely lost in contemporary society, with its logic of consumption and utilitarianism. Given this context, we intend to shed light on the impact of childhoods on human thought and creative freedom.