Emergências da matéria: a escultura em trânsito e seus vestígios

Abstract

This research addresses my artistic production, of which operations are based on the transit between the sculptural and etching languages in an expanded field. The sculpture I operate unfolds in the passage of entropic material, fed by the movements of time in an environmental situation. This passage of matter sometimes produces vestiges, traces of evidence, which I work in search for a retention through the tensioning of two operating principles of etching. Thus, in the present study, I seek to develop relations between matter and memory based on the concept of duration, developed by the philosopher Henri Bergson, as on the thermodynamic concept of entropy through the production of the american artist Robert Smithson. In addition, I develop this research oriented by the operatory principles indifferenciation, ruination and ruin, as well as containment, so that I also propose approaches with works by artists as Nuno Ramos, in his sculptural and literary production; Brígida Baltar, in her operations of passages of matter; Daniel Senise, through his Shrouds and Hans Haacke, in his environmental systems, among others. Also, to investigate the relationship between the vestige and its event, I seek the help of the concept of symptom, developed by the historian of images Georges Didi-Huberman, as well as the concept of formless, developed by the french writer Georges Bataille. In addition, this research unfolds on the matter’s tension in its dynamic and critical situation, whose trace produced is witness of its passage.