Gabriela Sá is a Brazilian visual artist and researcher. Currently doing her PhD in Visual Arts at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), in Brazil, she also holds a MA in Visual Arts (UFMG, Belo Horizonte, 2017) and a BA in Social Communications (UFMG, Belo Horizonte, 2012). Sá currently works as an art-educator in the Public Mental Health System of Belo Horizonte, where she explores dialogues between art and psychoanalysis. She is also a curator and exhibition designer at the Photography Festival of Tiradentes, one of the largest festivals dedicated to photography and related media in Brazil. In her own artistic practice, Sá works mostly with photography, moving image, texts, performances and installations, investigating possible imbrications of themes such as memory and forgetfulness, history and fiction, the real and the imaginary.
Affiliation: Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Research interests: Archive; photography, contemporary art, psychoanalysis, memory, narrative.
In her doctoral research, Gabriela Sá investigates a possible performative dimension of the archive within contemporary artistic practices. Considering the association of images and documents alongside with performative acts of language, such as conceptualized by John. L. Austin, she will examine works of contemporary artists who narrate personal and collective stories betting on narrative gestures in the formalization of their work while tensioning the real and the imaginary.
