The weave of memory: Ana Miranda, Adriana Varejão and Tatiana Salem Levy

abstract

Art is, at times, a re-elaboration of the past. It does not constitute a real past - even when it takes the form of the historical novel - but offers instead the vestiges of memory and its artistic or linguistic interpretation. I am referring here to the creative interpreters of memory such as the novelists Tatiana Salem-Levy (Lisbon, 1979) and Ana Miranda (Fortaleza, 1951), and the Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão (Rio de Janeiro, 1964). In all of them memory receives a new interpretation. In the work of these artists, the intention is not to remember but to recreate the past, producing new objects, new texts that may serve to interpret the memories, the possible reality of a remote, archaic time, which only art is capable of revealing.

Keywords:
memory; art; Ana Miranda; Adriana Varejão; Tatiana Salem Levy