Palabras clave
Terry Boddie
Memoria
Plantación
Paisaje
Esclavitud
Memoria
Plantación
Paisaje
Esclavitud
Cómo citar
Kitlinski, S. F. (2018). To Unweave the Sugar Plantation: Memory, Landscape, and Photography in Terry Boddie’s Sugar Plantation Landscape. Revista De Arte Ibero Nierika, (14), 8–20. Recuperado a partir de https://nierika.ibero.mx/index.php/nierika/article/view/203
Resumen
La serie “Residue of Memory”, realizada por Terry Boddie entre 1999 y 2013, emplea la yuxtaposición de fotografías y marcas hechas a mano con la finalidad de interrogar la capacidad del medio fotográfico de invocar narrativas históricas presuntamente objetivas además de la memoria “subjetiva”. En el presente texto, examino la obra Sugar Plantation Landscape con el fin de arrojar luz sobre las formas en las cuales los procesos creativos de Boddie y el contenido formal de la obra dialogan con los discursos históricos que circunscribían la visión del paisaje en el Caribe colonial además de la capacidad de la imagen de invocar las memorias personal y colectiva de la esclavitud. Argumento que Boddie fragmenta, y rechaza el régimen estético de la colonia en el cual el cuerpo negro se encontraba inscrito para cuestionar y trastocar sus despliegues institucionales en el contexto caribeño, proponiendo que el artista usa semejantes herramientas experimentales para ampliar la capacidad del medio fotográfico de comunicar la memoria. Planteo que, pese a los experimentos de Boddie, el lenguaje formal de Sugar Plantation Landscape declara la imposibilidad de la imagen –y de la memoria en general– de retratar el sufrimiento de la plantación esclavista.
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