Capturando os anos: a representação da velhice nos projetos de Arianne Clément

Abstract

The paper presents the old age in the projects of Arianne Clement using the images available in her website as well as the considerations of Sontag (2005) and Flusser (2006) important to the understanding of the art of photography and through this to the comprehension of Clement’s representation of old age as a searching for a non commom beauty, that is, the Canadian photographer challenges a trivial meaning of beauty linked solely to the youth, to what seems eternally young. Clement, on the other hand, shines a light on the elderly from 70 years old on and on their questions about sexuality, longevity, feminism, and beauty. For this, Clement is an artist committed to a reader of old age that wants to take it out of the shadows and undo visions of it according to which it is the age of decline of all beings.