Renata Voss
Research Institute in Art, Design and Society (i2ADS) and Federal University of Bahia
Renata Voss é artista visual, professora da Escola de Belas Artes da Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), concluiu o doutoramento em Artes Visuais pela Universidade Federal da Bahia. É líder do Grupo Arte Híbrida (CNPq). Investiga desde 2004 os processos históricos e experimentais articulando o estudo de materialidades do “velho” e do “novo” na criação artística com fotografia. Desenvolve um trabalho que estabelece relações entre fotografia, tempo e memória. Publicou os livros de fotografia “O Cortejo” (2019), “Ruir” (2017) e “Até a falha” (2020). Recebeu Menção Honrosa no Julia Margaret Cameron Award (Londres, 2020, 2021 e 2023), categoria “Processos Alternativos”. É membro do Comitê de Poéticas Artísticas da Associação Nacional de Pesquisadores em Artes Plásticas – ANPAP. Vem produzindo exposições individuais e participando de exposições coletivas nacionais e internacionais. Atualmente realiza pós-doutorado junto ao i2ADS na Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto (Portugal) com bolsa do CNPQ-Brasil. Portifolio: renatavoss.com
https://renatavoss.com/
Research title
Materialities of chemical and digital photographic processes in contemporary artistic creation
Abstract
The materialities of photography and the intersections with other artistic languages form a vast field of investigation explored by artist-researchers. In this project, linked to the Arte Híbrida Group, we will study photographic materialities, their potential and their implications for current artistic creation, promoting the advancement of the state of the art in research in the field of photography related to creative processes in visual arts. This research aims to map and analyze the production of institutions and artist-researchers who use experimental photographic development methods in Brazil and Portugal. It starts from the problem that, although dematerialization is approached with the numerical image, digital photography implies the materiality of device screens and, aiming at its longevity and conservation and the artist’s intentions, it seeks to choose printing or development techniques to go beyond the fragility (CONWAY, 2001) of files in cloud systems and/or backups. We start from the hypothesis that, with our relationship with the world founded on presence, the study of “old” and “new” materialities in photography expands the possibilities in artistic creation (PARIKKA, 2021). Digital photography makes us look not only at the now and the future, but at the past in other ways. We observe initiatives that are dedicated to the realization of historic techniques today – such as antotype, cyanotype, van dyke brown, salt paper, ambrotype, daguerreotype – as well as events and exhibitions focused on this type of image production. Bibliographical research will be carried out on photographic processes and media archeology, in addition to the study of materials used in the techniques used by artists and their implications for artistic thinking today. We will carry out training and dissemination stages in non-formal education spaces and participate in photography festivals and events in national and international museums and galleries.
Está a realizar residência artística promovida pelo projeto de investigação Media Filosóficos.
Supervision
Camila Mangueira
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