A ficcionalização da vida: escritas de si na arte contemporânea

Abstract

This dissertation aims to create a relation between self-writing – a modality of texts written in first-person or correlated to the author's life experiences – and the contemporary art. Based mainly on the authors Philippe Lejeune, Serge Doubrovsky and Leonor Arfuch, the parameters for this proposition were established, exploring expressions and terms such as self-fiction and the biographical space. The development brings such concepts from literature and letters closer to the works of contemporary artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Bispo do Rosário, Leonilson, Carrie Mae Weems, Rosana Paulino, in addition to my own artistic process, after all, the artworks mentioned in the text deal with several of the proposed questions, subjectivity, the constitution of individuality and self-fiction. Writers such as Paul Auster, Gertrude Stein, Lima Barreto and Virginia Woolf were quoted in relation to the notions of self-writing and autofictions. In parallel, the developments of this theoretical research resulted in the creation of the piece self-fictions or I wanted to be a novelist