MEMORY AND THE POETICS OF CLOTHING IN CONTEMPORARY ARTISTIC NARRATIVES
clothes; art; memory
The present research seeks the poetics and subjectivity of dressing in contemporary artistic practices. The first part of this work involves autobiography, the practice of the Thrift Store and the book “Marx's Coat” by Peter Stallybrass. These three sessions understand dressing not only as a social necessity, but also as a historical and affective place. The objective of this investigation is to observe the poetics and the social life of the things presented in the works of Emily Spivack, Regina Galindo and Christian Boltanski, leading to the reflection of the discard and the implications of understanding dressing as a poetic and historical situation. The course of this search understands that thinking of clothes as an affective space can lead to a more sustainable perception of the use of clothes;