Caixas, acumulação e poças

Abstract

From the rediscovery, in his closet, of a written chronicle and a photograph stapled to it, the author writes this dissertation. The text and the photograph, together, constitute one of the three artworks of his own creation discussed in this doctoral investigation – Caixas, Cúmulo, and Poças. In this dissertation, he analyzes the intersection that drives the three works: the desire to mix, overlap, and interweave a broad range of previously separate elements. The central axis of the research is the notion of accumulation, initially understood as a plural layering of seemingly disordered items that took shape in his apartment through a domestic artistic experience. This desire to mix opens up endless questions, encompassing themes such as residue beyond material waste, authorship as a dilemma, and the floor as a surface upon which a set is arranged and spread out. To what extent is it possible to group and overlap elements before they become unrecognizable? How do the environment, the material, or the surface on which this encounter takes place affect our relationship with the whole? And how does one deal with an experience of accumulation that constantly resists its own configuration as a work of art? These are some of the inquiries that drive this dissertation