Território da perda: memórias inundadas e fotografia na Amazônia pós Belo Monte

Abstract

This research proposes a study about memory, photography and aesthetic in eastern Amazon. The locus of this investigation is the Santo Antonio farming community in the south-west of the state of Pará/ Brazil, one of the first communities to be removed in reason of the social environment impact of Belo Monte hydroelectric plan. The community was situated at the border of the Transamazonica highway and the Xingu river, where used to live around sixty families. In this investigation I recompose the fragments of the stories from other in Amazon, what I present as cartographies of the displacement − routes of investigations woven by myself in the region − compose by draws, portraits, photographies, video frames and reference points which compose my process-map. When mapping this space, I run into the distinct types of images, photographic and imagetic, which were defined as resistance images, as they persist in memory, regarded here as flooded memories, and also by contribute directly and indirectly for the social resistance of some families, once reminding the past they deny the present. Therefore, this research by means of incessant search for the memories of old village residents and, in some cases, also by the photographies in the family albums that portrayed parts their lives in the locality in question