Fronteira entre a memória e o esquecimento: possibilidade de abertura para imaginação

Abstract

The young Brazilian artist, Gabriela Silva presents us with an autobiographical work that has a direct relationship with life, where memory and forgeness imprint their way in the process of creation. This article aims to reflect on the series named Place of Forgetfulness, composed of 10 works printed on 29 x 42 cm photographic paper. These works are divided between: border, boundary and oblivion. They are works that narrate the place of desire through painting, photography, sewing and writing. Involved in a sense of abandonment and loss, she collects photographs from her family collection, connecting the images with the place of her research and investigation. The artist starts from the memory of the cartographies, when she brings to her drawings and paintings the fluidity of frontiers and oblivion as a limit. A smuggler’s look at geography, crossed by art that dialogues with vacant space, with the boundary line that separates the boundaries and borders between time, memory and imagination. They are geographical concepts of spaces, desires and affections of your gaze. Gabriela locates her work among unknown rivers, searching for materials degraded by time, bringing photography as a memory device. And it is in the relationship between painting and photography that it follows its artistic trajectory. Her work is inspired by Jorge Larrosa, Manoel de Barros and Christine Delory Momberger. They are authors of different places that dialogue with the artist’s work, bringing the theoretical guide to the analysis of her work, forming processes of biographical, aesthetic and artistic reflexivity.