Oscillations between micro and macrohistory in the photography of André Penteado

Abstract

This article discusses the reconstruction of memory through two photographic books by São Paulo artist André Penteado, respectively O Suicídio de meu pai (2007-2014) and Cabanagem (2015). If in the fi rst work the artist proposes relations focused more on the autobiographical and on the micronarrative regarding the taboos about suicide and individual suffering, in the second, he offers us a broader discussion of the elements that anchor the historical erasures related to violence and collective suffering.