The Body-arché: memory and power in the work of Adriana Varejão

Abstract

The study is about  the contemporary theoretical-conceptual articulation between the body, memory and gender, having as an object of analysis the works of the plastic artist Adriana Varejão. In this way, this proposal intends to indicate the conception of the body inserted in the dynamics of power relations, from the perspective of contemporary political theory. Through a transdisciplinary methodological approach, in the wake of Foucault's thought, we seek Judith Butler's contributions on gender and sociopolitical inscriptions. And in the formulations of Michel Foucault himself, with regard to bodily relations in spaces. Through the modulations of Pierre Nora, it will be possible to understand the idea of memory places as another archival framing for the body. It was aimed, therefore, to point out this corporeality as a living file of resistance. The body conceived as an architecture of enjoyment.