Residency Period: 03/01/2013 to 02/28/2014
Professor Patricia Franca-Huchet is a professor at the School of Fine Arts at the Federal University of Minas Gerais and a researcher at BE-IT: Bureau of Studies on Image and Time. Doctorat and Master from the Université de Paris I, Sorbonne. Master 1 from the University of Paris VIII. Postdoctoral fellow at the Université de Paris III Institut de Recherche sur le Cinéma et l’Audiovisuel (IRCAV) and at the Center de Recherche en Esthétique du Cinéma et des Images (CRECI). She works on the image, focusing her interest on the critical reconstruction of the pictorial tradition. She is a member of IAWIS: International Association of word and image studies, currently based at UQAM, Montréal. She coordinates the BE-IT research group: Bureau of Studies on Image and Time; that she conceived. She is a member of the permanent staff of PPGArtes at EBA / UFMG, which she helped found since 1998. She was a professor at the University of São Paulo [ECA-CAP] from 1995 to 1997, at the invitation of Professor Walter Zanini and Júlio Plaza. She has publications in books and specialized magazines in Brazil and in other countries. She was a visiting professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia. She researched, exhibited and published at Fondation Danäe / France. She has experience in the field of Arts, working mainly on the following subjects: image, photography, painting, literature.
BETWEEN HISTORY AND FICTION: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE HETERONYM IN PHOTOGRAPHIC AND LITERARY PRACTICE
The project is developed within the line of research “Studies on image and history”, of the BE-IT Group: Bureau of studies on image and time. A continuation of the previous research Photography as a category of artistic thought. It covers practice with the photographic image and its artistic and theoretical problematization. It shows as a central object our relationship with images – from history, and, above all, from the history of art that are reworked by photography. These become the material of a fiction and an experience of the author as a heteronym. Around photography and as a result of this fictional character, the notion of theatricality will be investigated in a montage work that aims to reframe images, visual and textual references. Thus, we seek to relocate fragments taken from history [texts and images] in an artistic update that results in a critical iconography in the present. The aim is therefore, through production, to unite photographic and reflective research around the same objective: the heteronym, his thought and his production, in the form of books, exhibitions and presentations in various modalities, what he seeks to make of this researches a dynamic assembly and editing process. The question of the theatricality of the photographic image proves to be fundamental in this research, since it highlights the current pertinence of artistic and critical productions that take as their central objective our ambiguous relationship with images [fiction] and, consequently, the experience of the spectator. Through this corpus of critical categories and artistic procedures, this research has as its horizon or intrinsic motivation the intensity of the presence of images in the formation of the individual and the collectivity.