Nature, Landscape and Representation in the Photography of Claudia Jaguaribe

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the construction of images in Claudia Jaguaribe’s photographs of nature and landscape in the series “Quando eu vi.” The text seeks to demonstrate how the photographs in Jaguaribe’s work simultaneously constitute expressive materials and a reflection on the systems of logic that organize our way of perceiving and of presenting the world. Therefore, the text will examine five pieces from the abovementioned series and review the procedures performed by the artist for a critical discussion of the notions of “nature” and “landscape” in photography. The questions raised by the artist are part of the discussion on the archive in contemporary art, in which photography is considered as a device that allows a discussion of systems and codes of representation, and the landscape is seen as a device that modulates our perceptions and relations with natural and constructed spaces.