PRESENCE OF ABSENCE: THE EMPTY SPACE IN GUSTAVO GERMANO AND BERNARDO KUCINSKI

Abstract

This work analyse how the Ausenc’as’ exhibition, of Gustavo Germano, and the K romance, the story of a quest, of Bernardo Kucinski, bring to bear the political disappearances theme of Brazilian civil and military dictatorship, from a incomplete, empty space on both productions. So, to achieve this comprehension, it’s used a bibliographical methodology, with Barthes (1984; 2011), Didi-Huberman (1998; 2012), Figueiredo (2017), Cury (2020), among other authors as academic input. In Gustavo Germano’s project, the trauma is shaped in the absence of a body, that go beyond the family circle and enter the public sphere to incite the viewer to see beyond emptiness, the void enforced by our official history. The same movement is observed in the Kucinski’s work that also goes from a family trauma to invite the reader to remember the military dictatorship horrors, to hear the silence scream that reverberate in the darkest corners of our past. Saving the singularities of each object, the analysis points to a common force: the art as an oblivion resistance, as a meaningful visibility and highlight stage of the history, capable of avoiding that the past reconstruction be consumed in the official documents logical.