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UNVEILING THE INVISIBLE

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https://doi.org/10.33871/sensorium.2024.11.9644

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ABSTRACT

The present study addresses the artist's book “Submerged” (2021-22), composed of portraits of African and indigenous women, from the Museum of Image and Sound of Amazonas (MISAM). This work is autobiographical in nature and authored by one of the authors of this article, whose research, contained in a doctoral course, presents the process of ancestral reconnection, which begins with the absence of photographic records of her Afro-indigenous ancestors, the central theme of her research. In this visual poetics, the artist associates the act of remembering with the photographic negative and the dark waters of the Rio Negro, the birthplace of her grandmothers and great-grandmothers. The artist reports how she finds possible ways to understand the connection between water and memory in African and indigenous worldviews. She also establishes poetic dialogues with visual artist Aline Motta. Later, she produced other images through hybrid photography and phototransfer for printing the book. As she delves into her memories in search of her relatives, she glimpses attempts to bring their representations to life. The hope of a rebirth for them and their descendants, in the historical archives.  

 

Keywords: Afro-indigenous women; Rio Negro; Photographic archive; Memory.

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Khetllen da Costa Tavares, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina

Khetllen Costa, artista visual nascida em Manaus (AM), doutoranda no programa de pós-graduação em Artes Visuais – PPGAV na Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (2018-), na linha de processos artí­sticos contemporâneos, atualmente bolsista CAPES. Licenciada em Artes Visuais na Universidade Federal do Amazonas (2013), mestre em Letras e Artes na Universidade do Estado do Amazonas (2016). Pesquisa retratos de mulheres africanas, indí­genas em acervos fotográficos públicos e privado, com os quais desenvolve livros de artista entrelaçando com as narrativas de sua famí­lia de raí­zes afro-indí­genas.

Silvana Barbosa Macêdo , Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina

Silvana Macêdo has a PhD Fine Arts (2003) and MA Fine Arts (1999) - Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. Post-Doctorate UCS/CNPq. Effective professor at the Department of Visual Arts since 2006, professor at the Postgraduate Program in Visual Arts at UDESC - PPGAV/UDESC. Researches the dialogue between contemporary art, science, nature and technology, the subject of his doctorate (2003). More recently, research on contemporary maternalisms, feminisms and gender studies.

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Published

2024-11-28

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Vol. 11 (2024): Art&Sensorium

Section

Dossier: Engraving poetics: processes, contaminations and connections

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