A More Original Place than the Space: Josely Vianna Baptista and Lucrecia Martel

Abstract

In Western literary histories, the notion of nature was linked to the issue of belonging. Questions related to the original space unfold in other demands for literary criticism. In gestures that try to enact issues of belonging/not belonging to space, the works of Josely Vianna Baptista and Lucrecia Martel establish “places” to “situate” the relationships between voice and language / nature and writing. Their effects are devoid of purpose and thus they reveal a second nature that depends on a new type of co-registration, which is the result of new ontological relations derived from other uses of the act of naming. The aim of this study is to analyze the ways in which this disposition materializes in the video poem Nothing is out of place by Josely V. Baptista and in the feature film Zama by Lucrecia Martel.

Keywords
Josely Vianna Baptista; Lucrecia Martel; Latin American art and subjectivity; poetry; cinema