Mata e templo: consumo e identidade mediando representações do corpo no desenho

Abstract

In this dissertation, I present my research as an artist through two of my longest-running projects: Mata (2010–) and Templo (2014–). Based on my trajectory as an artist, I organize diverse experiences and results with an emphasis on drawing, as well as articulate photographic references derived from entertainment practices and their industry, embedded within the context of modern nation-states. The research unfolds across three chapters, where I emphasize each series through text and images that highlight their operative concepts (REY, 2002). At the same time, through the juxtaposition of various samples drawn from the lexicon of identities that form Bahia’s cultural industry since the second half of the 20th century, I aim to reveal the modern-contemporary nature of these expressions, often unrecognized and dismissed as diminished cultural forms, allegedly confined to acts of consumption. By employing juxtaposition in a broader sense, akin to the copy-and-paste logic of digital computational aesthetics, I seek to situate this dissertation within a critical environment. Ironically, by juxtaposing excerpts from axé music compositions with the text and images from my creative process, I refer to these forms of consumption and identity as ways of life that evade what are typically considered vernacular.