Body, blank, trace

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2020.172250

Abstract

 The body is what disappears; the blank, the disappearance itself; the trace, what remains, the mark on the space, the trail, the scar. For seven years, I walked through different landscapes and narratives in search of the dead, photographing what I found: stones, bones, ashes, forests, ruins, houses, train tracks. Now these images compose an archive, a kind of Warburguian atlas in which they can find themselves, confront each other, invent themselves. The website Body, blank, trace is one of the results of my post-doctoral research, which focused on a study on monuments and memorials to the dead. Through reflections on the image, the body, memory and death, I came to understand the memorial as the new body of the dead, on the basis of a possible effect of presence, since it situates the missing person in the physical and material space of a community. Faced with a vast archive of travels and memories, I try to give an order to what remains – the images. Some show the rest, the trail, the trace. Others show the erasure of the dead. How to see what the landscape shows?

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  • Carolina Junqueira dos Santos, Universidade de São Paulo

    Carolina Junqueira dos Santos holds a Ph.D in Arts from the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Minas Gerais/UFMG [2015/FAPEMIG], including a research stay at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Strasbourg [2014/CAPES]. She held postdoctoral positions at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Sao Paulo/USP, and the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences/EHESS, in Paris, with a research project on Monuments and Memorials to the Dead [2016-2020/FAPESP]. She did her B.A. in Arts [UFMG, 2003] and her M.A. in Visual Arts [UFMG, 2006]. She works mostly in the area of Art and Photography, focusing on the study of image, especially from an anthropological perspective. She developed a comprehensive research program on images belonging in the context of mourning and loss, along with several studies on death and representation of the disappeared body. She has conducted research on the impact of memorials in culture ? such as museums, cemeteries, monuments, ephemeral altars, sites of conscience and memory, photography. She has been awarded the 2016 edition of the CAPES Prize for the best doctoral dissertation (?Body, death, and image: the invention of a presence in memorials and post-mortem photographies?) in the area of Arts/Music. She is a member of GRAVI, Group of Visual Anthropology of the University of São Paulo-USP. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)

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Published

2020-08-24

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Vol. 5 No. 1 (2020)

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Found on the Net

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Santos, Carolina Junqueira dos. 2020. “Body, Blank, Trace”. GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal 5 (1). https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2020.172250.