A Memória é uma pele invisível: um estudo crítico sobre arquivos de famílias negras e cultura visual

Abstract

This work investigates the relationships between memory, identity, visuality, and family photographic archives, with a special focus on Black Brazilian families. From a personal and critical perspective, the author analyzes how contemporary Black artists mobilize personal and historical archives to question hegemonic narratives about Black families, proposing, through artistic production, an attempt at symbolic reparation. Photography is understood as a complex event, with colonial origins marked by the logic of capture, but also as a means of self-determination and agency for Black people. The study develops through a visual journey of memory, reflecting on how photographs, personal objects, and orality act as affective archives that reveal stories of belonging, individual experiences, and Afro-diasporic strategies of organization, manifested in the formation of expanded family ties.