Pelotas à deriva: táticas urbanas para coleção e construção de situations trouvées

Abstract

This dissertation presents and analyses the poetic productions developed by me as result of urban exploration experiences by walking the streets of Pelotas, RS, Brazil. Such exploration is articulated by using photography as a visual research tool, aimed to search and record accidental and ephemeral situations characterized by the action of nature on the built environment, such as the texture of eroded walls, paint peelings, lacerated posters and shapes formed by the projection of shadows over the walls and sidewalks, from the incidence of sunlight on urban devices. The art works produced from these records are presented in various forms, from photographic collections to urban interventions. The analysis of such production is contextualized by a historic background research on the act of urban walking as a poetic action or as a fundamental part of artistic productions since the Modern Age, its relations to the social effects of industrialization, urbanization and globalization, as well to the different ideologies adopted by artistic movements and individual artists from Modern to Contemporary Age.