Resisting the Dominant Gaze: Prison Works by Brazilian Artist Rosângela Rennó and Filmmaker Maria Augusta Ramos
| Autor: | Marguerite Itamar Harrison |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Binary opposition
media_common.quotation_subject Identity (social science) Prison 06 humanities and the arts Representation (arts) Art 060202 literary studies Gaze Politics Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Aesthetics 0602 languages and literature Film director Resistance (creativity) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Studies in Latin American Popular Culture. 35:24-36 |
| ISSN: | 2157-2941 0730-9139 |
| DOI: | 10.7560/slapc3502 |
| Popis: | This article examines photographic installations by Rosângela Renno and documentaries by Maria Augusta Ramos as contemporary representations of resistance to visual renderings of the colonialist and neocolonialist encounter. Works such as Renno’s series Vulgo (1998–1999) and Ramos’s film Juizo (2007) express resistance through the deliberate absence of a frontal, reciprocated gaze. These artists’ aesthetic decisions serve to challenge fixed notions of identity and typecasting around binary opposites of dominant-powerful and marginal-powerless. They become transgressive alternatives to Brazilian identity in the country’s vast history of representation. In the words of John Berger, Renno and Ramos incorporate contemporary visual alternatives “into social and political memory.” Within the visual politics articulated by bell hooks, these two artists subvert “institutionalized systems of domination” by way of aesthetic interventions. In examining these artists’ works in this framework, this article ex... |
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