Ethnographic: out of print and into the exhibition space
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https://doi.org/10.5944/etfvii.4.2016.16064Keywords:
Ethnographic image, curatorial discourse, La Triennale 2012, transtextuality,Abstract
In La Triennale 2012 - Intense Proximité, curator Okwui Enwezor describes his activity as that of ethnographer, combining «images of reality and models of examining reality». Thus, he proposes a journey that starts with the exhibited works and goes beyond the field of art. Among them is a set of drawings and photographs produced by Claude Levi-Strauss in the course of fieldwork in Brazil in 1935. The displacement proposed by the ethnographer’s photographs documents in ethnological interpretations, direct one’s gaze to distant lands, as well as ancient times. From the images, the ethnographer’s presence relates to a book, Tristes Tropiques, in which displacement unfolds in references to his predecessor, Guido Boggiani, and his successor, Darcy Ribeiro. The duality of approximating-distancing, a central movement in curatorial discourse, opens a way to seeing the ethnographic image as framing both a subject and its viewer.Downloads
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