LEONARDO DA SILVA RODRIGUES

The project aims to accomplish an analytical study on contemporary art, whose purpose is to examine the consistency and applicability of three hypotheses in an attempt to characterize the meaning of artistic production in contemporary times. The hypotheses are: that art has reached, according to a set of analyses, a state of “exhaustion” that would be evidenced through the supposed indeterminacy of contemporary artistic activity; that, on the contrary, such “exhausted” artistic activity must be thought of in a critical way, as a productive factor, which signals a reflective inclination based on mechanisms of working-through of the content, form and artistic materials; and that this property of reflexive creation based on the supposed “exhaustion” of art in contemporary artistic activity would have as its fundamental feature the establishment of a specific relationship with the present dimension of time, whose association would allow art to establish an asynchronous dynamic that it would enable a form of opening up the historical process itself, evidenced above all in works and artistic manifestations linked to the “archive form” of contemporary art.