ME INSCREVA QUANDO SENTIR A MINHA FALTA: Poética da ausência na reinscrição de um acervo fotográfico

Abstract

This thesis memorial presents the creative process behind the visual artwork and experimental photobook entitled Me inscreva quando sentir a minha falta ("Write Me In When You Feel My Absence"). Starting from the perception of my own visual absence in my family’s photographic archive, I sought to insert myself into the forgotten images stored on my mother’s Cyber-shot camera. To do so, I developed a methodology based on the concepts of Autofiction and Databending, which in this research served as technical tools for the creation of Pure Glitch images that form the visual essay belonging to the artist’s book and book-object developed. The text presents a hybrid research approach of a systematic and transdisciplinary nature, organizedin stages of theoretical research and creation and experimentation processes in the studio. With the theme of Poetics of Absence, the developed work makes use of Glitch Art aesthetics as a creative tool to elaborate the concept of Visual Metaphor of Error, thus creating a visuality expressed in images that reflect absence, deterritorialization, and complex questions surrounding memory. Through this study, I aim to contribute to the reflective arsenal of contemporary art and its relationship with works of resistance and counter-narrative, as well as to add to the body of work created by artists from the Northern and Amazonian regions of Brazil. As for the critical aspect, the study further expands on the reflection about the term Glitch Art and Autofiction as an experimental language within the field of visual arts. On a social level, the developed work sheds light on the need to recover marginalized memories, proposing a (visual and theoretical) reflection on absence and belonging, inspiring new creative and appreciative perspectives on art and memory in intersection with technology.