Fixar memórias: o bordado como tentativa de frear o tempo

Abstract

This dissertation is a reflection on the author’s work process, weaving relations between three pieces of research developed by her over the past ten years: Captura cotidiana, Livrolinholinha and Proteção para tempos sombrios. The text unfolds from questions about embroidery, yarn and thread; the time of embroidery, the expanded time and the deceleration attempts; the relation of plants with time, with people and with their beliefs; the places of exchange and gathering; the memory of present time; the stories told by those who lived them; the capture and archiving of worldly things; embroidery as a way to retain memories; the way we try to retain images and words, and the way they tend to disappear over time – also seeking dialogue with theorists such as Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, Jeanne Marie Gagnebin, Tim Ingold, Georges Didi-Huberman and Giorgio Agamben, among others.