Paisagens (re)inventadas: fragmentações poéticas do espaço urbano contemporâneo

Abstract

The present dissertation deals with an artistic production in visual poetics, which investigates the landscapes of contemporary urban space from the city of Santa Maria/RS, and what is chosen to be seen in this space. The motivation of the research is given by photographing environments subject to ephemerality, which keep a direct relationship between architecture and living in the city, especially in a moment of isolation and restriction of transitoriety, imposed by the COVID-19 virus, where the artist's contact with the urban landscape is restricted to a window cutout and to the surroundings of your home space. The limiarity and suspension spatio-temporal are seen as operational concepts, with the intention to problematize the dichotomous relationship between the fragility of ruins in the process of degradation, and the transitory state of buildings in the process of construction within the city. Thus, the photography is thought of as a clipping of the fleeting stages of these urban landscapes, and also as a material for artistic use, as it is digitally treated. The research operates from the cartographic method and presents as a result the poetic construction entitled “(re)invented landscapes”, in the case of compositions of own authorship, presented in images that unfold and evoke different ways of working the tensioning and the relationship dichotomous between the landscape of constructions in ruins and of new buildings, also proposing to think about the concept of fragmentation as a possible way to “integrate” the entire set of work, because it is present in each of its parts.