Da (re)criação enunciativa da experiência humana: a fotografia como testemunho

Abstract

This thesis is presented as a product of metasemantics because it creates a discourse about the possibility of art held in photographic image to establish itself as a testimony of human experience in language. Through the road leading to the second-generation semiology, this study addresses art as a representative force of testimony of man's experience in language, having as its object photography organized in a narrative format, as arranged in the photographic work Arquipélago, Cristiano Sant'Anna. The bases for this study are derived from the theory of enunciation in Émile Benveniste's work (1995, 2006, 2014) and the notion of testimony derived from the philosophical thought of Giorgio Agamben (2008a). The product generated by this research contains a theoretical possibility which includes the enunciation, but does not stop there, indicating that photographic art is a testimony of the human experience in language when it evokes the positive reality that revolves the symbolic and stimulates man to, in and through language, relocate himself and to look for a new position for himself in the discursive universe, in an infinitely present time, mobilizing the chain of signifiers of which he is part, in order to meet his need to exist in and through language.