Ausência transbordada: desvelamentos do presente

Abstract

This research witnesses the search for meaning of a granddaughter of an ex-political prisoner, called the third generation directly affected by the military dictatorship. It analyses artistic productions in the light and shadow of traumatic memories and experiences both from the last century (above all, the Latin American military dictatorships) and from the beginning of the 21st century. The dissertation is constituted as an attempt of self-writing, assembling photographic practices and varied textual forms, overflowing memories and happenings of a past which makes itself present. What is presented here are hybrid experiments of text and image which establish, in diverse temporalities, attempts of fictionalizing and understanding poetically and historically the spacetime fabric in which we find ourselves.