Nós, eu e o animal-memória

Abstract

We, I and the memory-animal is an autobiographical research in art which seeks a place of belonging through the creation of artist's books, in a poetics of travel. When wondering where I belong, I looked through the family archive and realized that I wouldn't find a specific place of origin. From this gap, I developed the notion of autogeofabulation, braided from the concepts of inventorying, autobiogeography and critical fabulation. In the process, a presence emerged that guided me through internal landscapes, which I named memory-animal. The operational concepts of autogeofabular and memory-animal are results of this investigation. The movement — physical, identity, diasporic — and the word — oral, written, from the dictionary — sewed the fabric of memory through the threads of the autogeofabulation, traversing the traces of the archive, recognizing the internal landscapes and imagining what was erased. The memory-animal emerged along this path, blurring boundaries between archive and fable, in opposition to hegemonic narratives. The investigative path resulted in the creation of four artist books entitled: About us, The map of the ruins, At the margins of me and Fabled landscapes, made during the year 2024 and which give materiality to this search. This research is part of the line "Artistic Poetics and Creation Processes" of the Postgraduate Program in Art and Visual Culture (PPGACV) of the Faculty of Visual Arts (FAV) of the Federal University of Goiás (UFG) and in the line "Auto/Biographical Materialities and Immaterialities in Artistic Poetics and Creation Processes" from the Autobiographical Artistic Practices Research Group (NuPAA/UFG/CNPq).