(UN)COVERING MYSELF: AFRO-BRAZILIAN IMPRESSIONS
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https://doi.org/10.33871/sensorium.2024.11.9649Abstract
This article presents the main concepts and elements of the research in visual poetics "(Un)covering Myself: Afro-Brazilian Impressions," developed during the academic master's program in Visual Arts at the Federal University of Santa Maria. The study addresses Afro-Brazilian culture as portrayed through 19th-century photographs, aiming to build a connection to this culture through visuality and the artistic processes embedded in the poetics. Seeking to understand how I (Un)cover myself through the forms evoked by the poetics within me, this study was developed from experiments in self-portraits and expanded techniques with woodcut. It weaves connections between personal and artistic processes through the quest to (Un)cover and reframe the view of oneself by viewing others. Consequently, the research enables a confrontation between past and present through the juxtaposition of visualities from 19th-century photographs and discusses the origins of Afro-Brazilian narratives that tell the history of the Black population from a different perspective.
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