Coastlines and ghostly landscapes [move, be moved] by Carolina Junqueira dos Santos

Friday, May 19, 2023, at 2:30 pm
LISA - Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology - FFLCH/USP
Rua do Anfiteatro, 181 - favo 10, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo - SP

After reaching the sea, and entering the coastal dimension of the world, I understood that all landscape is a ghost landscape. There are marks on the floor, albeit fragile and temporary, marks that disappear on the next rise of the tide. How many dead inhabit the world of the living, streets and roads, the horizon where a bird's wings now flutter? I walked the most diverse landscapes in search of what they lacked, carrying the question: what remains? Today I find algae and corals, but I'm still with the ghosts. Searching is moving and make the whole world move. The journey continues, making up remains, excavated remains and reassembled, permanently reorienting their own narrative.

Carolina Junqueira dos Santos holds a PhD and a Masters in Arts from the School of Fine Arts of UFMG. She completed her post-doctorate at the Department of Anthropology at USP, with an internship at EHESS in Paris. She conducted several field surveys in search of marks and inscriptions of the dead in the landscapes and the bond with the living. She mainly investigates images and practices of memory, among photographs, monuments to the dead, artistic and literary productions around grief. His doctoral thesis, on family photographs in the context of mourning, won the 2016 Capes Thesis Award. In 2020, she published the website. Instagram <@corpo.lacuna>.