Development and resignification of the family album through the art project about grief.
Abstract
Domestic photography, with the album as the symbol of the legacy of family memory, has been a reflection of the identity construction and the desire to configure a visual memory in which to project an idealized vision of the family. However, in other periods, images that reflected personal pain, loss or death were accepted as an important part of family memory. Although this field of representation is now becoming visible, especially in the online ground, it is through the art project that many artists talk about grief, disease or death, making these issues visible and normalizing them. In this sense, the object of study here proposed is to analyze two possible approaches in which one documents a new chapter of the family album whereas the second deconstructs and/or resignifies the actual family archive. Along with this proposal various projects by the author are presented in which memory and loss are explored through self-representation and the transformation of the album and the family image, both from theory and artistic practice.
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