Letícia Bertagna's micronarratives of imagery: verbal-visual oxymorons and life forms

Abstract

The artistic trajectory of Letícia Bertagna, one of the nominated artists of the eleventh edition of the prestigious Pipa Prize, is the trigger of this article. Here I focus on the series of digital images “Fundo do fora”, which has been composed since 2016 by Letícia. From this series, I bring three images as metonymic triggers to defend the hypothesis that Bertagna performs micronarrative imagery, using as a procedure the operation of verbovisual oxymorons, especially in apories forged between title and image. I use the mature Wittgenstein's language perspective as a theoretical background for the reflection in which I recognize narrative and poetic capacities in Bertagna's works from various linguistic resources. In addition, I see in her taste for daily life a movement of dislocation to reveal the stranger of the common. Strangeness appears as verbovisual oxymorons in which the artist fictionalizes life and art, diluting its limits and potentializing meanings.