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The Photographic Lens as Cultural Critique: Writings of the Body in Cicatriz, by Rosangela Rennó
| Summary: | Rosangela Rennó’s photographic exhibition Cicatriz (Scar) (1996) introduces a disturbing search into the House of Detention’s photographic collection, in São Paulo. The institutional files looks like a stagnant combination of inertia and both official and group stigma until the moment when Rennó seeks the affection, the poetry, the sign’s revolt and resistance that can denounce a muted Other. The photograph, then, reveal the cultural tissue which previously could not be named: the previously misty image begins to work in an area of repression, open in its distressing condition that erases the boundaries considered rational and homogeneous. A harrowing set of prisoner’s tattoos is presented and demonstrate the painful writings of a subordinate Self. From the deconsecration of the photographic mirror a land is opened for the reading of epithelial texts healed as discourses anointed in marginal flesh. |
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| Main Authors: | Barberena, Ricardo Araújo |
| Subject: | Photography identity otherness nation memory Fotografia identidade alteridade nação memória |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Country: | Brazil |
| Document type: | article |
| Access type: | unknown |
| Associated institution: | IBICT |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| Origin: | Oasisbr |
| Summary: | Rosangela Rennó’s photographic exhibition Cicatriz (Scar) (1996) introduces a disturbing search into the House of Detention’s photographic collection, in São Paulo. The institutional files looks like a stagnant combination of inertia and both official and group stigma until the moment when Rennó seeks the affection, the poetry, the sign’s revolt and resistance that can denounce a muted Other. The photograph, then, reveal the cultural tissue which previously could not be named: the previously misty image begins to work in an area of repression, open in its distressing condition that erases the boundaries considered rational and homogeneous. A harrowing set of prisoner’s tattoos is presented and demonstrate the painful writings of a subordinate Self. From the deconsecration of the photographic mirror a land is opened for the reading of epithelial texts healed as discourses anointed in marginal flesh. |
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