Nasce a última que morre: uma investigação poética, crítica e simbólica acerca da identidade nacional nas artes visuais contemporâneas

Abstract

This dissertation is the result of research into visual poetics, with an emphasis on a certain poetic, critical and symbolic approach to part of the production of contemporary visual art works by artist Jessica Porciuncula, with emphasis on the languages ​​of self-portrait, performance, audiovisual and three dimensional art. With a political perspective on the production and processes, rather than the languages ​​and works themselves, I am interested in this research in pointing out the construction of a critical and symbolic thought behind the production as a whole, bringing to the discussion artistic and theoretical references, historical facts, events, memories and personal perceptions presented in a poetic and analytical discourse. An investigation into the symbolic-visual possibilities around a national identity, which, based on the body, nature, and different national and popular symbols, could be constructed/reconstructed/tensed, other poetic and critical expressions about current nationalism. A reality is prophesied where “the last one to die is born”, leading to the search for other perceptions of how to live in Brazil and the contemporary world.