O tempo redesenhado: tramas da imagem

Abstract

This article investigates the relations between image and time, taking as object of study some works of the English artist Tacita Dean. In her works the drawing is crossed by other temporalities, resulting from the possible dialogue with photography, cinema, and also painting. Thus, we can understand that the moving image by different media destabilizes the linear perception of time. In these displacements the image presents itself as a constellation of heterogeneous times. Besides the dialogue that these works can establish with other fields of knowledge (cinema, photography, painting), image, however ancient, always reconfigures the present in which it presents itself. As spectators we are confronted with a memory that precedes us and with a possibility of future that surpasses us. In the flickering presence of the image, what appears is our own disappearance. This is the image's lacerating opening, which inevitably also places us before the time.

Key words:

Tacita Dean, image, time.