Queer Scrapscape: Hudinilson Jr.’s Cadernos de referências
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2023.207177Keywords:
Hudinilson Jr., Scrapbooking, Ephemera, Self-design, NarcissusAbstract
This essay sheds light on Brazilian artist Hudinilson Jr.’s Cadernos de referências (c. 1981-2013), a series of dense and layered scrapbooks. Through an analysis of layouts and media, the investigation highlights the extensive design and cultural implications that the practice triggers. The focus lies primarily on formal recurrences and narrative strategies identified on double page spreads, revealing how they condense the artist’s queer poetics. The Cadernos emerge as an everyday practice of exploration of the human body, a space for self-design and cultural resistance, and a tool for questioning the relationship between the exposed body, self-image, and mass media.
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