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ART AND LANGUAGE

Art thinks and rethinks the world we live in. The artistic expression demands sensitivity to collect in the present reality, be it denying or reaffirming, the thousand possibilities of seeing and experiencing life. When borders become less visible and cultures meet and renew, understanding each other becomes fundamental. "Art has the power to deal with issues of the human condition, which in fact escape science." "It's one of the most complex ways of thinking about our world."

Thinking about the world without borders also requires the mastery of several languages. Understanding spoken languages and their literary expressions is also indispensable for our time. "The translation is to go beyond simply transferring code, from one language to another, is to think about a cultural relationship." The form of a poem, the look of the narrator, the place of speech, the construction of writing, the said and the unspoken. All that the lyrics can say. Human beings seek to create and use their inventive capacity and sediment this knowledge through the world of images. Based on the oldest type of art, rock painting, one can see that it has always been a concern of man to immortalize his memory through images.

The study of memory has always enchanted several scholars, and Professor Maria do Céu Diel is one of them. In her research, entitled "The Art of Memory," she studies memory in the imaginal sense of the word, as belonging to rhetoric; and relating to the production of images, be they paintings, frescoes, photography, engraving and cinema.

During her trip to Italy for postdoctoral studies, Maria dedicated herself to the painter Andrea Mantegna, observing her practice in creating compositions in frescoes from effigies and medals. From this observation, Maria do Céu studied what she calls the "myth of origin", to discuss the true genesis of the images. This mystery about the real beginnings also appears in other forms of art, such as literature, where the concept is called mimesis.

The focus of Mary of Heaven is the image and what it represents. Citing filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, when he said that "every aesthetic choice is also a political choice", Maria do Céu approaches the image as a key piece in the history of humanity. In one of his interviews, which appears a discussion about the importance of the image to the powers, whether secular or religious. And she closes the same interview with a strong question: "Lately, when we go to an exhibition, what moves us? Our whole nervous system, or a painting that matches our living room, what turns us into an exhibition of paintings? " The control of images in the West, that is, their service to the powers, their copies, transformations and modifications are the core of a research that shelters the memory, the rhetoric, the iconography, philology and the individuality of the simple reunion of the human being to create his own discourse of life.

Luís Horácio