Seres oníricos: as imagens dos sonhos como impulso criativo na construção de personagens

Abstract

This research focuses on the artistic production of Mariana Coelho Penha Corrêa, carried out from 2020 to 2023, during a mostly pandemic period (COVID-19). The investigation starts from drawings and sketches of images of dreamed creatures, and aims to investigate the author's production process, in the line of research Processes of Creation and Poetics of Everyday Life of the Master's Degree in Arts at the Federal University of Pelotas. The research analyzes how memories of dream images, something so intimate and fragmented, can influence the process of creating drawings and creatures. The study presents the stages of creation, based on notes made in notebooks called Dream Diaries, along with the complexities of dreams and the elements that manifest themselves in this process, such as discussions about the imaginary, fantasy, psychoanalysis and the Grotesque-Hybrid linked to dream figures. The text is developed from a personal narrative, using self-writing and autoethnography as its methodology, combining memories, creation processes, readings of bibliographic references and comparison with artistic references. The main authors consulted were Edith Derdyk (2007), Edgar Morin (2002), Foucault (2002), Cecilia Salles (2007) and Tzevan Todorov (1975). As well as the main artists referring to Leonardo Da Vinci, Max Ernst, Franz Kafka among others. At the end of the research, dreams are involved in art and contemporary times until the production of a Dream Bestiary that is the result of this research.