A perda de si como método no processo criativo fotográfico contemporâneo

Abstract

I propose to investigate the experience of losing oneself as a method in the contemporary creative process, more specifically in the procedures that involve photography. Thus, we start from the hypothesis that the intentionality of putting oneself in risky experiences and producing a displacement (physical and epistemic) can be used as a method in the creative process. We will focus on the thesis in two axes: a) the loss of self in relation to nature, as an experience that disturbs the body and deconstructs the form, triggering the photographic creation; b) the loss of self in relation to otherness, as an experience that intends to produce a decolonization of the production processes that involves photography. We will reflect in both cases how the methodological intentionality of the loss of oneself crosses and impacts the creative process, and how the photographic device calls for experience, intensifying the dimension of this displacement. The thesis will be developed from the unfolding of the artistic works developed by the author during her writing.