Colecção

• Author(s): Prudêncio, Silvia, 1981-
• Date: 2011
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/5006
• Origin: Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
• Subject(s): Colecção; Livro; Imagem fotográfica; Arte e vida
• Document Type: Master thesis
• Language: Portuguese
• Advisor(s): Botelho, Manuel, 1950-
• Contributor(s): Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa

Description

Tese de mestrado, Pintura, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas Artes, 2012

Departing from the analysis of the book series "Collection", I sought to define an insightful space of thought that would deepen the developed works. Such analysis is strongly anchored on the books, but it also aims to further investigate other theoretical, historical, and artistic dimensions, in a fluid intertwinement of theory and practice. This dissertation has two distinct moments. In the first chapter, which develops from a set of questions around the creation of a book collection of photographic images, I have tried to analyze the essential elements of the presented works, both from a material and formal points of view. The themes addressed in the second chapter stem from anintrospective process, where I have investigated the motivations underlying this body of work, particularly by focusing on the impetus of artistic creation in permanent connection to the transiency and ephemerality of everyday experience. While taking up the question of the relationship between art and experience, and between art and life, I have defended a context for art, advocating for a possibility of micro-scale actions, and for a definition of a field that would allow us to escape from the dominant spectacular trends of the artistic phenomena. Ideally, my project regards the outlining of another space, one that would welcome intimacy, contemplation and silence.the establishment of such essentially poetic space belongs to the inevitable dimension of personal experience. I believe, however, that by illuminating the everyday vulgarity of the real, art offers a possibility to re!ect upon it and upon the ability we have to ultimately transform it