Atos de subverter e (des)mascarar a imagem: trans-ferir, mutilar, fragmentar e (des)figurar.

Abstract

Acts of Subverting and (un)masking the image: TRANS-fer, mutilate, fragment and (dis)figure is a research of the PPGAV-Mestrado/CA/UFPel, research line creative processes and poetics of the everyday, with funding from CAPES/FAPERGS, which aims to discuss issues related to child abuse and violation of the body, through the development of poetic procedures that subvert photographic images of children, animals and people captured from the internet or donated by collaborators. The procedures are based on “photocopy-montage”, a manual transfer technique which uses fragments of cutout photocopies which, after being reconfigured, are displaced onto another support surface with the use of thinner, thus suggesting a masked figure in the foreground. These images can be conceived as “mestizo”. Other procedures of transforming an image - cutting, scraping and mutilating - damage and violate the image’s surface, often in a grotesque way, revealing the idea of a violated body, poetically (un)masking social violence, but veiling the identity of the victim. I use the image's technical reproductibility to disseminate my artistic message and political views. The development of this work has an important social role: to represent the struggle for human rights, which need to be addressed by more researchers in the Visual Arts.