Ensaiando o abismo sob a ponte

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the relationship between writing and image in the face of death and dying, based on the author's personal experiences with the death of his mother within a Judeo-Christian culture. The symestries and asymmetries about the narrative and plastic productions of death and survival in face of it, are investigated from the History of Art and the myth of Jesus' birth, crucifixion and rebirth and the mourning of Mary, mother of Jesus. The essay, a textual genre used for the narrative construction of this research, is chosen based on its poetic and literary character, being of great value in bringing together authors who are often unfamiliar with each other, who reference the research. The effects of mourning in the production of a post-mortem vocabulary and the image explored as a method of interrupting the desire for the disappearance of things related to it, are areas of interest to the author, based on the iconological construction of Mary by art, artists and History of Art, as opposed to its narrative erasure in the Holy Bible. Writing, seen as an Author's rite of death, opposes image production as a method of survival in the face of time, resulting in the plastic-visual production of the author, who finds the results of his research in artistic production.