Corpo da Alma [Body of Soul] series by Rosângela Rennó will occupy hall 3. This group of images show people holding pictures of missing friends or relatives and was first published in newspapers’ articles. This series unfolded into many formats, such as aluminum boards, adhesive vinyl and ink jet prints. Here, photography becomes an instrument of rebellion against oblivion for those who had to live with the sudden absence of their dear ones, either because they were victims of disappearance or death (by acts of war, terrorism or urban violence). The portrayed people, here exhibited by their relatives, point out to a state of impotence. With this procedure, Rennó makes one of the main characteristics of photography – to freeze the instant – unstable. According to the critic Paulo Herkenhoff, Rennó wakes up the archive-dream of photography into mobility, thus making visible extra-imagetic facts.
Corpo da Alma [Body of Soul] series by Rosângela Rennó will occupy hall 3. This group of images show people holding pictures of missing friends or relatives and was first published in newspapers’ articles. This series unfolded into many formats, such as aluminum boards, adhesive vinyl and ink jet prints. Here, photography becomes an instrument of rebellion against oblivion for those who had to live with the sudden absence of their dear ones, either because they were victims of disappearance or death (by acts of war, terrorism or urban violence). The portrayed people, here exhibited by their relatives, point out to a state of impotence. With this procedure, Rennó makes one of the main characteristics of photography – to freeze the instant – unstable. According to the critic Paulo Herkenhoff, Rennó wakes up the archive-dream of photography into mobility, thus making visible extra-imagetic facts.