Between painting and poetry: expressions of affective (dis)connection through transversalities of paint and words

Abstract

This research in visual poetics explores the transversalities between painting and poetry, about their combined potential to express emotions, affectivity, and the connection or disconnection in the face of the fluidity of contemporary interpersonal relationships. Through a practical-theoretical approach, it investigates the dialogues of pigment in communion with writing and its expressive potential, based on the process of personal artistic production. It constructs narratives and externalizes feelings that have permeated pain, bitterness, and the process of ‘healing these wounds’. Artists and poets such as Vincent Van Gogh, Iberê Camargo, Edward Hopper, Daniel Scherrer, Anatol Knotek, Lars Stenchly, Igor Pires, Felipe Rocha, among others, serve as references. Additionally, theorists who support the investigation include Marco Giannotti, Sandra Rey, Valdevino Soares de Oliveira, Nara Amélia Melo da Silva, Lygia Saboia, Ricardo Basbaum, Zygmunt Bauman, Jacques Rancière, and Rosane Preciosa Sequeira, many of them artists and teachers. The conceived works aim to create an empathetic potential in the viewer towards their narratives, allowing them to potentially associate these narratives with experiences common to human beings, thereby confronting and shedding the social armor often imposed by ‘civility’. This is achieved through the emotional (dis)connection, given the infinite possible interpretations, depending on the perspective of each viewer.