Do material ao meio: relações entre tecnologia e cultura na obra de Eliane Prolik.

Abstract

Contemporary production builds an aesthetic language marked by movements of displacement of objects’ function and by the subversion of materials to contexts other than those usually envisaged. García-Canclini (2000) states that new technologies are possibilities for appropriation, experimentation and communication with more democratic uses that incite creativity and innovation. This more fluid circulation within society opens space for understanding and reworking meanings. The aim of this research is to reflect on the work of an artist from Curitiba, Eliane Prolik, considering the ways in which she problematizes the techniques and materials to reinvent the environment, the surroundings and the experience of the space. Her work emphasizes this hybrid and experimental character of the current production, allowing the construction of subjectivities and the dialogue with new perspectives of meaning through sculptures, objects and spatial interventions. Authors like Miller (2013) help to think the relationship between people and objects, the uses and the appropriations, by approaching the concept of material culture – the study of stuff. As an analysis strategy, Mauad’s analysis sheets (2005) and the image intercrossing proposed by Samain (2012) were used as basis. The research demonstrates the way in which contemporary production enhances the observer active participation, placing him as an active subject in the process of construction of meanings.