Photography on the weaving of silence

Abstract

This article focuses on the photography of writers Fernando Sabino and Clarice Lispector. Together with the letters exchanged between writers during 23 years of friendship (1946-1969) and present in Cartas perto do coração (2011), photography tells a unique moment. The objective is to articulate the role of concepts such as silence, survival, trace and aesthesis in the experience of observation and construction of a narration, in this sense it is considered the participation of the critic in the construction of the photographic narrative. For this, the hegemonic notion of aesthetics no longer bears the discussion proposed precisely by excluding the sensation and perception, in favor of a set of norms that institute concepts as beautiful in order to delimit what is art, reinforcing an artistic and critical perspective based on the similarities, and what does not correspond to the established parameters is relegated to exteriority. Thus, the division into three subheadings aims to meet the objectives listed, offering considerations of what is convenient to call “narration of the image” and that consists in understanding photography as open to the other’s gaze. The articulation developed is based on the considerations of Walter Mignolo, Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes, Eni P. Orlandi and Jacques Derrida.