Do vestígio ao avesso da imagem

Abstract

When we feel danger approaching, we cannot, with impunity, reject the appeal of images of the past, as Walter Benjamin teaches us. We reflect here on the reawakening of a certain modality of archival image - the portraits of identity / identification - in the work Immemorial (Rosângela Rennó, 1994) and in the film 48 (Susana de Sousa Dias, 2009). In a sense, these portraits are vestiges of a scene produced under the rules of disciplinary power; in another sense, these vestiges are reworked within the texture of the works and contribute to a smaller or greater opening of the images, so that they can bring to light their reverse.