Violentar o Corpo da Imagem: uma estratégia para representar e resistir à barbárie

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article reflects on the representation of the violated body in contemporary art through the analysis of “Postais para Charles Lynch”, by Garapa collective. In this work, the group provokes form and color distortions in frames extracted from videos of lynchings as a strategy to cover their explicit representation and, simoutaneously, violate the body of the image. Considering interviews with the artists, the analysis of the work and texts of Joan Fontcuberta, Hito Steyerl and Jacques Rancière, this article investigates the presence and circulation of images of public body agressions in the digital culture context, as well as the potential offered by art to reframe them. KEYWORDS Contemporary art, digital image, appropriation, violence.