Interwoven imaginaries of Brazil and Portugal in a Visual Performance by the artist Edicleison de Freitas Cardoso: a chronicle on the Mummies

Abstract

The present initiative transposes images and sensations referred by an artistic experiment from 2024 into the current dimension of text and its potential for reflection. This work was conducted in the public space of Coimbra (Portugal) by the artist Edicleison de Freitas with the participation of walking others. As an act of collective breadth, through themes of family and memory, through the open combination of imaginations with its varied situational audience, and through the confrontation of the city via the poetic mechanisms of contemporary art, the artist aimed to propose a very specific expansion on the matter of time. This approach involves the body succeeding as an agency (an appropriation/use of it) of a performed Mummy, calling upon the artist’s emotional remnants that merge with affective ruins echoed from the audience, in a process that excavates from narratives to the inventive faces of art, perhaps to exhume and save the deads ones of the actors involved, both visible and invisible within the city.