Casa, objeto e memória : a narrativa como arte e valor das coisas

Abstract

The present study, House, object and memory: the narrative as art and the value of things, analyzes the several actions on the creation of the "Museum of Other People's Things: a private collection of other people's memories". The "Museum of Other People's Things" is a domestic, artistic and museological installation of a museum at home during the coronavirus pandemic in the years of 2020 and 2021. The first action of this work before the pandemic's social distance phase was realizing visits to other's people homes. The visits aimed at looking for second-hand objects, where I could think about of (i) visits as artistic actions, (ii) houses as private reservoir of materialized memories and (iii) object's potentiality to evoke memories and narratives. In the second phase of this work, during pandemic social isolation, I created a museum at home, taking into account the concept of a house as a museum. Taking into consideration the concept of biographical object as well as narratives as an expression of the things' value, this study is written in first person, and it brings to the text my personal narratives. It revisits my previous works and analyzes the creation of the museum at home, exposing my long journey of personal and artistic experiences with objects. In this respect, the subjectivity of the relationships established between an object and a person is investigated from the point of view of art and memory, starting from my own poetic production and considering theoretical and artistic references that approach: leftovers; self-narratives; created pasts; character creation; reports about houses and ways of living; assigning value to objects; archiving, collecting and inventorying fragments of life, life and exhaustion. The work of some authors had a great impact on the discussion of this study, such as: Ecléa Bosi, Peter Stallybrass, Octave Debary, Lourenço Mutarelli, Georges Perec, Pierre Nora, José Eduardo Agualusa, Paul Auster, Abraham A. Moles, Walter Benjamin, Michel de Certeau, Luce Giard, Pierre Mayol, Gaston Bachelard, Maria Esther Maciel, Orhan Pamuk and the artists Rosângela Rennó, Christian Boltanski, Ruth Moreira de Sousa Regiani, Fernanda Gassen, Chauncey Hare, Alice Monsell, Helene Sacco, Vera Lucia Didonet Thomaz, Elida Tessler, Mark Dion and Joseph Cornell.