The identical “i” of Lepê Correia and the art of drawing yourself

Abstract

This article is the result of one of the chapters of a thesis of an (auto)biographical and aims to demonstrate how art can relate to narrative in construction of a self-writing, in the space of drawing, storytelling and photography, reeducating the look of the individual who draws himself, rebuilding his history. Like this, placing my body as an essential part of my experience, I expand the relationship of the my “I” Identical with other “I’s”, mediated by the ways that I trace, that I narrate and drawing, giving meaning to the stories of my life and those who meet me, as in which the images perform the composition of what I become, while (self) biographed, aiming to strengthen our identities. Pencil drawings, India ink and ballpoint pen and wax pencil, oil canvases, and a photographic image, make up this work that has “Nego Zau” as its background, a short story, which works as a space-mat where the plot of the article develops in dialogue with the text of the researcher De Oliveira (2021), on the work of professor Delory Momberger, that makes art dialogue with the (auto)biographical process, through its concept of Automedialidad, which uses the space element as a foundation for the (self)biography.