Quando a arte se parece com a gente: um ensaio sobre o afeto a partir de obras clássicas

Abstract

This work explores the power of affection as a bridge between classical art and everyday life, through a photographic essay of reinterpretations. Based on the premise that canonical works from art history can dialogue with the contemporary reality of Paraíba, the project's main objective was to visually translate universal affections into a regional context. The adopted methodology structured the research and production into four acts, each investigating a facet of affection – care, partnership, identity, and memory – based on the photographic reinterpretation of the artworks Pietà, The Kiss, Girl with a Pearl Earring, and Proserpina. As a result, a series of authorial images was created that seeks not reproduction, but dialogue, resignifying classical gestures and symbols through local bodies, sceneries, and lighting. It is concluded that artistic reinterpretation, centered on affection, proves to be an effective tool for bringing art closer to everyday life, shortening cultural distances, and revealing that beauty and the sacred also reside in the gestures and identities of our own time and place.