As cores violetas: a construção da memória afetiva através da autoetnografia visual

Abstract

This work is the result of an autoethnography process, realized from the experience of building a photographic self-narrative as an essay that will discuss issues which comes from this process related to memory as a key issue, offering an invitation to a reflection on the construction of my affective memory as a man in society and his representation in family albums. This research questions how the albums can represent the values of established rites in western culture and how the photography has a special place in the history of societies. It also investigates how my subjectivity and my anthropological and sociocultural heritage define the formation of images on my mind and the construction of my memory. And this is not only a question of my own, but as the work of every artist that is within his work. I use my experience as an artist to think about an issue beyond me. It is not a matter of just another one, but a matter that goes beyond me towards the other. Thus, we propose a visual autoethnographic methodological route in which the reality is the researcher’s universe. The project constructs a visual narrative at the end of the work resulting in a family album, but for that I develop this dissertation based on three correlated bases: image, memory and autoethnography. The picture as a form of dialogue and writing is the cornerstone of this work.