Faciality and figureability: graphic theses of the face in Egyptian parietal art

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v32i1pe205158

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parietal art, face, faciality, figureability, egipt

Abstract

Through four detached visual collections of urban murals during ethnographic wanderings through Cairo after the events of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, the article seeks to open speculations on some graphic theses of contemporary Egyptian parietal arts through their pregnant relations to the face, to a theory of the subject, and to historical truth. By addressing some of these pictorial experiments with faces of young protesters and anonymous people, it is pointed out that, instead of the abstract machine of the faceality of the revolutionary agent, Egyptian murals attributed to the figureability of the human face the metapolitical condition of being anyone, a subject existing beyond the segmentations of demands for recognition.

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  • Potyguara Alencar dos Santos, Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI)

    Possui doutorado e mestrado em Antropologia Social pela Universidade de Brasília (UnB) e graduação em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC). Tem marcado suas atuações em torno de uma antropologia da linguagem, das emoções e do corpo, com pesquisas em contextos da África Norte-saariana e do Egito urbano e rural contemporâneo ao período do Baᶜd al-Thaūra (após-revolução), onde vem explorando temas metapolíticos presentes no cotidiano emocional expressivo dos indivíduos e nas vivências das suas artes verbais e corporais criativas. Foi secretário e pesquisador do Laboratório de Estudos da Globalização e do Desenvolvimento (LEG - UnB) e é pesquisador colaborador do Laboratório e Grupo de Estudos em Relações Interétnicas (LAGERI - UnB). Atualmente realiza estágio pós-doutoral junto ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia da Universidade Federal do Piauí (PPGAnt/UFPI).

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2023-06-30

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Vol. 32 No. 1 (2023)

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Dossiê: Imagens Urbanas em Contextos Africanos

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Santos, P. A. dos . (2023). Faciality and figureability: graphic theses of the face in Egyptian parietal art . Cadernos De Campo (São Paulo, 1991), 32(1), e205158. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v32i1pe205158

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