Homo Selfies da apropriação de imagens digitais à pintura: retratos de autorretratos contemporâneos

Abstract

The present work encompasses my research of Masters in Visual Arts in the line of Processes of Creation and Poetics of the Daily Life. The title of the paper, Homo Selfies, refers to the man who makes selfies, a new way of self-portraying got from the one's smartphone by himself. The idea of the research is to use this virtual media phenomenon to bring those images to the field of painting, giving them non-existent materiality in the virtual space due to the current absence of photo printing, and discuss the new forms that people offer themselves as image in contemporary times due to the facilities that technology offers. I take advantage of the figures through the app Happn, which captures people who cross one another way. Starting from these premises, a reflection is made on the work produced by drawing parallels with the production of self-portraiture in art in the past and present and the relations of the contemporary subject with the other.