Unfolding times, rediscovering gazes: a study of “Missy in the window” by Lula Cardoso Ayres

The aim of this paper is to make a reading of “Missy in the window” (s/d) by pernambuco artist Lula Cardoso Ayres (1910-1987). From the formal-geometric imagery repertoire typical of the 1940s and 1950s, when the Brazilian art, and even the work of Ayres, was heading to concretism, we read the gesture as an intrinsic element in the image. The theoretical foundation is made from the thought of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, in particular the text "Notes sure le geste", 1991, in which the "gesture" is the main reason of his reflections.