Eu mar e o fogo que fere: processos de criação e travessias poéticas em pintura e desenho

Abstract

The work titled “Eu mar e o fogo que fere: processos de criação e travessias poéticas em pintura e desenho” (I sea and the fire that wounds: creative processes and poetic crossings in painting and drawing) is an investigation into the duality between fire and water in dialogue with my memories, time, and place, associating the imagery of childhood with the landscape through contemporary artistic productions. The research emerged from experimentation, lived experience, and imagination, and developed throughout the Bachelor's degree in Visual Arts, aiming to construct a poetic that connects points of memory such as childhood, place, and belonging, by making use of recurring symbols in my life, like the lighthouse, boat, dark, house, and beach. Painting, drawing, and object-making are the means of expression for this crossing, in a continuous field of visual and symbolic discoveries that still resonate, occurring in processes marked by the creation of a new sensitive reality, between the lived and the imagined, in an attempt to reveal a nocturnal and introspective space. Inspirations are drawn from artists such as Manuela Costa e Silva, Fernando Augusto, Lucélia Maciel, Genor Sales, Olga Karlovac, William Turner, and Mary Cassatt, as well as theoretical foundations from literature, through João Guimarães Rosa, and the study of psychoanalysis, referencing Gaston Bachelard. The study thus seeks greater reflection on the symbolic meanings of water, which refers to origin and the unconscious, and fire, associated with transformation and creative impulse, both acting as mediators of an artistic journey that traverses affects, times, and places.