Quaderni di Venezia Arti

Series | Quaderni di Venezia Arti
Edited book | Behind the Image, Beyond the Image
Chapter | Gnòthi seautòn, esercizi d’illusione

Gnòthi seautòn, esercizi d’illusione

Le Xerox Actions di Hudinilson Jr. allo specchio del mito

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the Xerox practice of Brazilian artist Hudinilson Urbano Jr. (São Paulo, 1957-2013) through a cross-cultural dialogue with Western mythology. Promoting a focus that reveals the heuristic potential of the xerographic gesture, the study employs the figure of Narcissus and the mirror of Dionysus to anachronically question the act of knowing oneself through the image. Hudinilson Jr.’s ‘exercises of seeing’ take him beyond the mere encounter with the mirror, where the body, as it performs on the photocopier, likewise dismembers itself into xerographic fragments that rewrite its identity, desire, and function.


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Submitted: Oct. 28, 2021 | Published May 13, 2022 | Language: it

Keywords Xerox Actions • Myth • Self-image • Mirror • Hudinilson Jr • Narcissus • Dionysus • Know thyself • Masculinity

Copyright © 2022 Simone Rossi. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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