She sells sea shells: notes for a poetics (and a policy) in painting

Abstract

Under the aegis of a sentence adapted from a movie, the thematic epicenter of this paper lies in the artistic production that causes the theoretical inquiry, revealing the genesis of the process of an author in art research. So, first there is the identification of driving lines emerging from an overview over three decades of this artistic journey, from an initial period in which utopia seems palpable and that gradually is succeeded by different realities. Then, a more recent body of work allows for greater focus on the issue of painting revaluation as a possibility in contemporary art, crossing the traditional specificity with the opening of borders, freedom and hybridism. Finally, some theoretical concerns, poetics and politics of a recent project, still ongoing, related to the referred film, are revealed.