The poetic spiral and the time of creation in Rubiane Maia: notes in process

Abstract

The article addresses the time of creation within the creative processes of multimedia artist Rubiane Maia. It starts from the hypothesis that although the displacements and unfoldings linked to the poetic construction of this artist can be examined according to a chronological and linear structure, while she forms this organization in space and time, she does not realize how to express the complexity and dynamisms that agency her time of creation, confining her creative processes to a linear time, distanced and separated from time in the light of multiplicity. Thus, having as theoretical contribution the notions of time as pure multiplicity, by Michel Serres (1982), and of spiral of time, by Bruno Latour (1994) - as well as the considerations of the artist herself about the time of creation that runs its artistic processes between the years 2006 and 2016 - we place here in perspective the notion of poetic spiral. A conceptual figure that, according to our analyses around the temporal flows of Rubiane's first ten years of career, would bring us closer to the temporality underlying her creative processes, namely, a spiral temporality - a reading that not only sharpens our perception of the amplitude and density of the poetic plots that weave the time of this artist's creation, but also insinuates the singularity of the ways in which she agencies the art-work triad in the whirl of the temporal flow that agencies her creative processes.