A Outra Imagem

• Autor(a) principal: Alexandra Lima Morais
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/124067
• topic: Artes; Arts

The present work is assumed as a path motivated by images made on the site. Images that are themselves a project. The focus is at Largo da Estação in Braga, a space that over time has been losing its identity, a place that despite being central and relevant in the city's plan (due to its fundamental role in mobility and circulation) has been "moving away" from the city. Since the implementation of the railways, this Largo has been a point of arrival and departure where, over time, the road intersections have multiplied, causing it to lose quality as a public space and, consequently, implying constraints on urban development of the surrounding environment. It is today a hinge place in the city, where everyone passes, but no one remains. The landscape resembles a collage of urban elements, one sees in the same plane, the Station, ruins, tunnels, church, trains, hotels, freeway, 12-story dwelling buildings, 7-meter-high billboards and land wastelands. The feeling is one of alienation and disorientation, however, the message it conveys is not understood as necessarily negative. It is like a counter-image of the city, in the sense of its criticism and in the sense of its possible alternative. It is in this possibility that the second part of the dissertation focuses. After a presentation of the place, an exploration of methods follows, as if it were a desk. Several language compositions are developed, mainly from photography, exposing an approach to the project, which does not impose itself as a watertight solution. The chapters complement each other, eventually forming a more informed discourse about the place and a clarification of the method culminating in the development of an alternative. In the construction of the present dissertation, we value the narrative and compositional freedom, constructing the body of text not only from the discourse that is obtained through the written words, but also from the assumption of the discourse constructed by the images as an argument. It navigates between memory, experience and external influences so that the alternative can be constructed.