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Mergulho em Apneia
30 minutos de matéria
homogeneizador de memórias
eu não costumava pensar
time heals
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Mergulho em Apneia is more than a collection of decomposing images: it is a poetic and experimental proposal to rethink time, memory, and image in the post-photography era. In this essay, the metaphors of shipwreck and diving intersect as pathways to deep zones of experience and representation.
In a time marked by acceleration, the dispersion of the gaze and the symbolic obsolescence of the image, this work proposes a radical deceleration: the patient observation of the degradation of the printed image, like someone listening to the submerged silence of memory.
If, as Hans Blumenberg argues in “Shipwreck with Spectator”, shipwreck is the original condition of existence, then perhaps the artistic gesture consists of learning to be submerged, not as someone who is lost, but as someone who learns to see with different eyes. Eyes accustomed to the gloom of water, to the uncertainty of form, to the slowness of transformation.
After all, what remains for the shipwrecked? What remains is the vulnerable body that survives, the gaze that resists, and the image that, even when broken, still speaks. Perhaps it is in this interval, between erasure and persistence, that the image of memory finds its deepest place.