Everyday life and presentification: image-experience as a poetic action

Abstract

This research approaches a knowledge engendered in my artistic practice concerning the encounter with urban life interstices. It is the image-experience, an image that carries experience, invested by its marking, originated in a gesture of perceptual readiness. Its establishment in exhibition spaces featured by singular historical and everyday life characteristics motivated the reflection of a mutual activation between the work and its registration place, providing an understanding of the presentification as an update of image-experience. The studies of Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) regarding the everyday life are fundamental to reflect, investigate and deepen the implications of this poetic exercise that arises from the mundane, from situations of encounter between gaps as life goes on. The proposition of an image-experience presentification brings a relationship perspective with the dialectical formulation site and nonsite, by Robert Smithson (1938-1973), and also between concepts like inhabiting, by Martin Heidegger (1889-1976).