Entre o corpo e a superfície: o desenho como inscrição poética e política da presença

Abstract

To draw is to inscribe oneself in the world. Between gesture and presence, this writing proposes drawing as a poetic and political act — a sensitive way of touching, scratching, leaving a trace in the world. Through walks, collections, everyday scenes, images, artworks, and autobiographical remnants, the notion of scene emerges: situations in which bodies displace the order of the sensible and bring forth presences through gestures of inscription. The text is structured in three notebooks: the first articulates relations between the poetic act, the political act, the scene, and drawing; the second ventures into derivations on the line and the point, understood not only as constitutive elements of drawing but as fields of experience that mobilize thought and create modes of inscription in space — whether through movement or stillness. In the third, the first images announce themselves — between footprints and cavities, between trace and disappearance, between the urban and the immemorial. The writing then moves as one who follows signs, wandering between the sensible and the political, unearthing links between art and life, and scratching the matter of the ground with the body — always errant, in oscillation. At each step, line, and hollow, the gesture of the body, in its hesitation or insistence, becomes poetic and political inscription. At the center lies the question: what is inscribed when the body touches the surfaces of the world?