Traços

  • Ana Sofia Martins Fernandes (Student)

Student thesis: Master's Thesis

Abstract

TRAÇOS aims to show how artistic expression can help people with disabilities to be not only present but active and participatory "in a world that doesn't usually give them much space. It presents a series of portraits of people in which their disabilities, limitations, and restrictions are diluted, like those of any other person, in the artistic representation of their individuality. From this angle of vision, it is intended to promote reflection on some dogmas and break the myth that disability is always associated with the fatality of a "useless", “deformed” and “unwanted” body that, in the eyes of the beholder, overlaps with the useful, beautiful and desired perspective of the beholder. Contrary to the procedure of documentary photography, the project focuses on staged narrative, in favor of a closer approach to the universe of cinema and with some allusions to surrealist photography. For this, allied to the photographic project, an analysis of the representations of illness, impairment and disability in David Lynch's cinema was carried out, namely through the study of his cinematographic work and the more detailed knowledge of some of his characters. Aware that this research project is complex, we sought other references, both written and conceptual, and visual and photographic, to support the development of a differentiated and creative visual rhetoric, in which our eyepiece stubbornly focused on the functioning and the art of the persons being photographed.
Date of Award11 Dec 2023
Original languagePortuguese
Awarding Institution
  • Universidade Católica Portuguesa
SupervisorCarlos Paulo Henriques Catrica da Silva (Supervisor) & Carlos Lobo (Co-Supervisor)

Keywords

  • Photography
  • Portrait
  • Disability
  • Functioning
  • Cinema
  • David Lynch

Designation

  • Mestrado em Fotografia

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