ÍNDICE METONÍMICO EM MOISÉS PATRÍCIO
METONYMIC INDEX IN MOISÉS PATRÍCIO’S WORK
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https://doi.org/10.21709/casa.v18i1.19972Keywords:
Afro-Brazilian culture, Photography, Metonymy, Moisés Patrício, PoeticsAbstract
This article analyzes the photographic text from the "Aceita?" series by Moisés Patrício through the lens of Peircean semiotics, emphasizing metonymy as a central figure in constructing the meaning of the images. The objective is to understand how the artist mobilizes visual elements, such as the hand wrapped in caution tape, to evoke reflections on restriction, exclusion, and resistance in the urban and racial Brazilian context. The analysis is based on Charles Sanders Peirce’s (1977) theory of signs, especially on the category of associative indices, as well as on the contributions of Philippe Dubois (1994) regarding the concept of off-frame space and Leda Maria Martins (2021) regarding performance. Methodologically, the study combines semiotic reading with an Afro-Brazilian critical-cultural approach, proposing a multisemiotic interpretation of the photographs. The results indicate that Patrício’s visual poetics re-signifies everyday and marginal elements, producing a powerful narrative about the realities experienced by racialized people in urban peripheries. Other authors were also used to analyze this text.
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