Fourteenth International Conference on The Image

Abstract

The present research intends to make a critical analysis about the photographic language in the work of the Brazilian artist Juliana Notari and the performative character of the image as a propellant of experiences. The artist is known for her video art, performance and photography works, which address, with a biographical-confessional character, discussions on violence, desire and trauma. It is proposed to present some authorial works by the artist that raise debates about the representation of the female body and its signs. Notari’s performative action in confluence with the use of photographic images confronts a border between representation and presentation where the body is the protagonist of poetic provocations. In her work, the image acts, at times, as a relic of the action and at times as an indication of an absent body. For this discussion, authors such as Andreas Muller-Pohle with his debate on the production strategies of contemporary photography; Viviane Matesco and her studies on performance and photography; Jacques Ranciere with his notes on the “effect of reality” and fiction; and gender debate of Judith Butler are important foundations for these critical studies of Juliana Notari`s art.