Paissagens: reconstrução da paisagem através de fragmentos fotográficos

Abstract

In this study, the author investigates the aesthetic and conceptual relationships involved in his photographic work entitled Paissagens. The title is a combination of the Portuguese words for Landscape (Paisagem, with one s) and Passage (Passagem, with two ss) and is explained through an allegory of the movement of the carousel in amusement parks. The research started with the construction of a pinhole device, designed and used for the production of a series of landscapes formed by photographic fragments, merging different places and times in a single image. In this process, a thorough study was carried out on how to correlate images and stories and how to create, in each new photograph, a distinct conceptual relationship. The author analyses the Paissagens built through the temporality present in the conception, bringing conceptual principles of Maurício Lissovsky, Antônio Fatorelli, among other authors. In some images produced, it is possible to see small landscapes, which arise from the fusion of elements from two different fragments, as a greater representation of the “intentional” chance created in the project. This essay also takes into account a historical contextualization of photography, the device built and the images produced by it, connecting its production with precursor authors of the 19th century, such as E. J. Marey, and with contemporary authors, such as Wayne Belger and Letícia Ramos. The author works in a hybrid way (chemically and digitally), causing dialogues between substance and essence, between art and matter, and thus emphasizing the process and the materials used as a significant part of the work.