Um lampejo de sombra: paisagens cosmológicas e visões cintilantes no desenho

Abstract

This research focuses on a poetics of shadow from two perspectives of authorial creations: through the Decalcomanias (Triceratops, Universal Gravitation, Manual of Pseudosciences, 2021), I investigate the shadow as a duplication operator, establishing a series of binarisms—among them, positive shadow and negative shadow—thereby touching upon its immaterial aspect. In Cintilações (Hall of Aberrations, Haunting, 2023), I investigate the scintillating pulsation as an audiovisual montage method, aiming to establish an image flicker effect caused by the alternation of bright and dark frames. Scintillation occurs through the partial interdiction of the luminous pulsation emanating from the projection, in its various intensities and frequencies, performing the metaphorical function of a shadow obstructing the path of light. Through this effect, I seek to expand the conditions of visibility beyond the eye's physiology, fostering a hallucinatory vision for the spectator—the supra-visible. These strands reveal a multifaceted universe of creation, marked by experimentation and grounded in the paradigm of creation as a network (Salles, 2008). Throughout this research, I seek to establish a definition of the shadow phenomenon, its relationship with theories of knowledge, with the myths of the origin of representation, and its instrumental uses in science, while also addressing its paradoxes and ambiguities (Casati, 2001; Baxandall, 1997; Tanizaki, 2007; Plato, 2018; Pliny, 2001; Bismarck, 2004). Finally, I discuss the aesthetic/poetic/political potential of the shadow, with its possibilities for inventing other visibilities and establishing new lines of imagination and knowledge (Dilacerda, 2022; 2023; Crary, 2016; Didi-Huberman, 2011).