Reimagined family ties : redressing memory through photography in the work of Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, Aline Motta and Juliana dos Santos

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dc.contributor.advisorNelson, Adele
dc.creatorFernandez, Maria Emilia, M.A.
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-04T16:33:49Z
dc.date.available2022-11-04T16:33:49Z
dc.date.created2022-08
dc.date.issued2022-08-12
dc.date.submittedAugust 2022
dc.date.updated2022-11-04T16:33:50Z
dc.description.abstractThis thesis investigates the work of Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, Aline Motta and Juliana dos Santos, three contemporary Brazilian artists who are proposing different ways of looking at the past while also addressing the interlocking forms of oppression at work in the present. Through their collaborations with relatives and ancestors, in which photography plays a crucial role, the artists reflect on the colonial trauma of over three centuries of genocide, slavery and colonization in Brazil. However, I argue that they go beyond that, proposing a way of reimagining frameworks of kinship as a form of redress. By articulating new lines of descent that constitute a (re)membering of those fragmented narratives that remain in the archives, I contend that the artists are addressing present structural, everyday racism while also performing and expanding the possibilities of inhabiting the future. In establishing a relation between their artistic practices, this thesis analyzes the ways they appeal to personal and collective memories brought to the foreground in family photographic records to conceive paths towards repairing, or at least naming, the wounds inflicted by the forms of class, gender and race violence that continue to plague the country. Moreover, this text reveals how their works invite a rearrangement of our perception of time and contribute to a critique of linear temporality, evincing the falseness of any narrative of the past as single, stable and flowing in only one direction. My research is guided by questions such as: How can photography serve as a medium of fabulation and of imagining family ties across time and space? If photographs help constitute a family’s affective archive, how can these intergenerational dialogues become a form of thinking about the future and inventing new lines of filiation? Furthermore, how can these gestures signal the way, if not toward healing, towards an ever-incomplete practice of redress?
dc.description.departmentArt History
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2152/116524
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/43419
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectPhotography
dc.subjectRedress
dc.subjectMemory
dc.subjectFamily ties
dc.subjectAffective archive
dc.subjectHealing
dc.subjectColonial trauma
dc.subjectCritical fabulation
dc.subjectFiliation
dc.subjectAncestors
dc.subjectKinship
dc.subjectBrazil
dc.subjectBrazilian art
dc.subjectContemporary Brazilian art
dc.subjectSpiral time
dc.subjectArchive
dc.subjectCollective memory
dc.subjectAbstraction
dc.subjectAfro-Brazilian
dc.subjectOpacity
dc.subjectCrossroads
dc.subjectNarratives
dc.subject(Re)member
dc.subjectQuiet refusal
dc.subjectForgetting
dc.subjectTrauma
dc.subjectPortrait photography
dc.subjectAfrican diaspora
dc.subjectBlack
dc.subjectIndigenous
dc.subject20th century
dc.subjectListening
dc.subjectRefusal
dc.subjectReimagine
dc.subjectCastiel Vitorino Brasileiro
dc.subjectAline Motta
dc.subjectJuliana dos Santos
dc.titleReimagined family ties : redressing memory through photography in the work of Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, Aline Motta and Juliana dos Santos
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialtext
thesis.degree.departmentArt History
thesis.degree.disciplineArt History
thesis.degree.grantorThe University of Texas at Austin
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts

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