Places of memory in the work of Ayrson Heráclito
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https://doi.org/10.29147/dat.v5i2.211Keywords:
Places of memory, Contemporary art, Video installation, Afro-Brazilian artAbstract
The purpose of this article is to reflect on the video installation Os Sacudimentos (2015), a video installation consisting of two videos called O Sacudimento da Casa da Torre (8’32 ‘) and O Sacudimento da Maison des Esclaves em Gorée (8’32’), a work by the Brazilian artist Ayrson Heráclito (Macaúbas, Bahia, 1968), based on the version shown at the São Paulo Art Museum Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) in 2018. As a methodological approach, for a discussion of the work, the conceptual perspective of places of memory (les lieux de mémóire) developed by Pierre Nora, in 1984. For Nora, places of memory are those where memory is crystallizes and takes refuge. They would be a kind of substitute the memory, which symbolically representing what remains and what is perpetuated from another time to the present.
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