Construindo memórias: produção de álbum objetoartisticográfico ilustrando a vida e morte das memórias de uma família libanesa em Belém

Abstract

The present research seeks to understand the affective involvement that a family descendant of immigrants has with their photographs, through the memories that they carry, taking as a support for the artistic work the process of mourning and forgetting. For this, it was necessary to make a historical overview of Lebanese immigration in Brazil and Pará, through bibliographic research and journalistic photographs, in addition to identifying how important the preservation of memories is in a family group. Throughout this research I try to establish a dialogue between authors such as José Alberto Buchabiqui and Assaad Zaidan that deals with Lebanese immigration; Edgar Morin and Henry Bergson who talk about the issue of individual memory, loss of individuality; related to the issue of death, Maurice Halbwachs and Fernando Catroga as the basis for collective memory, already Philippe Aries, João José Reis, Charles Feitosa, Roland Barthes, Maria Eliza Borges, Boris Kossoy, Jay Ruby, Michel Vovelle and Koury deal with related issues funeral customs, including art and the history of photography, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi talking about forgetfulness; and, finally, how the mourning process can be worked within art, through studies by Hanna Segal and Sigmund Freud.