Expelling herself: the first studies for Eco

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Drag, Performance, Photography, Self-portrait

Abstract

I present, in this visual essay, a sequence of the first six drag-photoshoots that constitute the Studies for Eco series. These self-portraits marks processes of dilution and construction of my identities as Eco as I begin my journey in drag art, bringing different moments of scrutiny and tests on/about me that records the birth and transitions of this persona that leaves the paper and canvas where it used to live to now inhabit the world. I experiment different bodies and faces that are created from my memories, materials, music, experiences, stereotypes, books, memes and concepts indefinitely. In addition to these photoshoots, I visit the first nuances and efforts of Eco to show herself through drawings in our home phone book when we were nine years old - a fetus that is born in the drag-photoshoots sixteen years later. The visual essay ends with a letter received by Eco, offering possible interpretations and bridges between two subjectivities, two sensitivities, two stories that intersect in the same eagerness to continue existing and resisting.

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Author Biographies

Eco Zazu, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina

Mestranda na linha de Processos Artísticos Contemporâneos do PPGAV da Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, também conhecida como Allan Cardoso

Débora Pazetto Ferreira, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina

Professora do Departamento de Artes Visuais e da linha de Processos Artísticos Contemporâneos do PPGAV na Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina.

Published

2022-10-06

How to Cite

CARDOSO, Állan Cordeiro; PAZETTO FERREIRA, Débora. Expelling herself: the first studies for Eco. Revista Apotheke, Florianópolis, v. 8, n. 2, p. 143–159, 2022. Disponível em: https://revistas.udesc.br/index.php/apotheke/article/view/22266. Acesso em: 17 jul. 2024.

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