...e serão ambos uma só carne: entre o corpo fragmentado e os canibalismos simbólicos

Abstract

The texts and images gathered here in the form of a memorial seek to account for the conception and production of the exhibition “E TORNARAM-SE UMA SÓ CARNE" The exhibition comprises the eponymous installation, composed of a dining room setting in the center, articulated with paintings and sculptural objects arranged on the surrounding walls. It is a contemporary still life proposition. Dining room, dramatic scenography, object-actors, simulacra of skin and flesh, all staged in an anthropophagic transubstantiation. A research that began with pictorial materiality and the representation of pain and violence, following the desire to investigate the surrealistic fragmentation of the body and the ambivalent representations of pain and pleasure, desire and repulsion, manifested in the poetic thought of Georges Bataille; on this path, however, there are deviations for a poetic research that traverses the intimate, the domestic, the perceptions of the sacred and the sinful, marriage, and religion. In this writing, I try to map zones in the patchwork of the creative process of the work, experienced over the past few years, and illuminate reflections that constitute such a process, understood as a non-linear result of large and small poetic-affective interactions between myself and the environment (family experiences, images crossed by the symbolic, striking literary fragments), as well as experiments that began in previous productions. The processes of creation are pulsating, tangled, and connected veins, irrigating a whole body of meanings.