Espaço como matéria de trabalho: questões críticas na arte contemporânea em obras de Cinthia Marcelle, Tânia Bruguera e Paulo Nazareth

Abstract

The dissertation focuses on 475 Volver and Leitmotiv, works by Cinthia Marcelle; Tatlin's Whisper #5, by Tânia Bruguera; and Dente de Elefante, by Paulo Nazareth, to consider how space is elaborated in these artworks, highlighting its uses and aesthetic-political implications in each case, and considering possible approximations between these artworks. Initially motivated by Frederic Jameson's idea of “cognitive mapping”, the text discusses questions around the relationship between subject and an ordered totality. Based on different theoretical frameworks, such as the works of Milton Santos, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Fred Moten, Roberto DaMatta and Muniz Sodré, it examines different aspects that can be argued in attention to the spatial dimension and how it is involved in each artwork. In this way, critical questions to the context of contemporary art are raised, from notions such as geographic space, institutional space, global space and indeterminacy, as well as the categories of performativity and representation, and the different distances present between work, spectator and criticism. . How the observed artworks feature economic, ethical and aesthetic scenes that intersect in contemporary politics are also questions that guide this research, which also aims to find continuities between these scenes.