Relações colapsantes para construção de um corpo em ruínas

Abstract

“Relationships collapsing for the construction of a body in ruins” aims to give a theoretical and textual contour to my work with sculptures. Nothing can be said about the artworks without harming them, so this work talks about the issues, theories, artists and works that my sculptures touch in some way. It is about my artistic processes and thoughts about production, guided by the concepts of “ruin”, “construction”, “collapse” and “body”. These concepts are treated through reflections about the daily production, the comparison between Pedro Costa's films; the concept of Montage by Sergei Eisenstein; the concept of “entropy” applied to everyday life and the reflections on weight and lightness in Italo Calvino and Richard Serra. Also through the concept of "archaeology", relating street vendors (contemporary archaeologists) and my activity as an artist-archeologist, passing by Walter Benjamin and Jacques Rancière; reflections on how the artist treats the “archaeological object” in Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp and how this archeology serves to treat my body. Finally, this text reflect, through the sculpture Boneca (2019), the issues related to transgender bodies and their presence in the capitalist-heterosexual world, comparing it to Duchamp's “Great Glass” and its erotic machinery