Uma questão de corpos: a fotografia de José Medeiros e Marcel Gautherot sob o signo da palavra muda

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to examine José Medeiros‘ and Marcel Gautherot‘s photographs by approaching Rancière‘s aesthetical-political reflections. In this sense, we will lean on the concept of pensive image, emphasizing how it entails literary mute speech. Our study is distributed in two parts. In the first one, particularly theoretical, we will follow Rancière‘s body of work, stressing: i) his relation to two precursors, Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes; ii) his thesis of a shared poetics and distribution of the sensible [partage du sensible] congregating literature and photography, what enables us to enroll them in the aesthetic regime of art. In the second part, a piece of critique, we will spotlight some of the photographers‘ pensive images. We will discuss their circulation in many media and suggest their correspondence with some writers‘ mute speech, such as Carolina Maria de Jesus‘, Francisco Alvim‘s and Bertolt Brecht‘s. At last, we will try to comprehend how both Medeiros and Gautherot share and reopen the unsettling potency literature inaugurated in the age of an aesthetic regime, which politics consists in putting into circulation supernumerary bodies and beings, escaping the predetermined police account of places, capacities, intelligences and abilities.