Eustáquio Neves: sujeito fotográfico - memória e imagem

Abstract

This research has as its starting point the access to the studio and the creation archives of the Brazilian artist Eustáquio Neves. The investigation of the paths identified in Neves' s works, sketches, notes and speeches, seeks to establish relations between the creation processes and the communicating presence materialized in the artist's works, in order to discover how the procedures adopted by the author transform images into manifestos that carry memories deliberately evoked, as they populate a fictional universe within their own times and spaces. Neves places photography in the context of the visual arts by creating complex images in which the process reminiscences - both photographic and extra-photographic - impose themselves, as well as the political statement. Presence therefore results from a semantic investment that permeates the entire creation process and, in the case of Neves, is amplified by the unconventional use of these procedures. The establishment of links between works, author and context of production aims to detect nexuses and recurrences between the material, in its various stages of development, and pertinent questions about contemporary visual arts. The academic treatment is made from the perspective of process criticism in accordance with Cecilia Salles' theoretical contributions and gives rise to discussions about photographic times and spaces, authorship, memory and archives. Alongside Salles are authors who collaborate for an interdisciplinary approach: Vincent Colapietro, Henri Bergson, Edgar Morin, Georges Didi-Huberman, Jacques Rancière and Michel Foucault